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escort fighter

American  

noun

  1. a fighter plane equipped to accompany other planes, especially bombers, on missions as a protection against air attack.


Etymology

Origin of escort fighter

First recorded in 1945–50

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And until Britain develops an escort fighter it will have to rely for that work on a poor makeshift�light bombers, armed to do a job they were never built to do.

From Time Magazine Archive

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