airdrop
to drop (persons, equipment, etc.) by parachute from an aircraft in flight.
the act or process of airdropping.
Origin of airdrop
1Other words from airdrop
- air-drop·pa·ble, adjective
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How to use airdrop in a sentence
Similar to stocks and bonds, crypto is subject to capital gains tax, so airdrops, hard forks, crypto earned from mining or lending, and crypto earned in exchange for goods and services are taxable.
Manage crypto taxes with ease using this highly-rated accounting software | Stack Commerce | February 25, 2022 | Popular-ScienceIn the 1990s, the Air Force and Army started developing the Joint Precision airdrop System, which attached to cargo parachutes and could steer them by pulling guidelines and following GPS.
These gliding drones could deliver supplies from Air Force planes to the battlefield | Kelsey D. Atherton | December 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceChina intends to allow smaller transactions to take place via “near field communication,” in a not dissimilar fashion to exchanging a file via Bluetooth or airdrop.
How China’s Digital Currency Could Challenge the Almighty Dollar | Charlie Campbell | August 11, 2021 | TimeThe U.S. is scheduling up to 100 attack, surveillance, and humanitarian airdrop missions a day over Iraq.
The airdrop mission consisted of a C-17 and two C-130 aircraft that were escorted by two F-18 fighters.
Obama’s Iraq Plan Has a Killer Flaw—and Airstrikes Alone May Not Save It | Jacob Siegel | August 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for airdrop
/ (ˈɛəˌdrɒp) /
a delivery of supplies, troops, etc, from an aircraft by parachute
(tr) to deliver (supplies, etc) by an airdrop
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