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escort fighter
noun
- a fighter plane equipped to accompany other planes, especially bombers, on missions as a protection against air attack.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of escort fighter1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
The second, and far more important, was that anti-air missiles became the main risk to bombers, with a range and speed that an escort fighter could do little about.
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