Tarmac

American  

[tahr-mak] / ˈtɑr mæk /

Trademark.

1. a brand of bituminous binder, similar to tarmacadam, for surfacing roads, airport runways, parking areas, etc.

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noun

1. (lowercase) a road, airport runway, parking area, etc., paved with Tarmac, tarmacadam, or a layer of tar.

2. (lowercase) a layer or covering of Tarmac, tarmacadam, or tar.

tarmac British  

/ ˈtɑːmæk /

noun

1. Full name: tarmacadam.  a paving material that consists of crushed stone rolled and bound with a mixture of tar and bitumen, esp as formerly used for a road, airport runway, etc See also macadam

2. a runway at an airport

   on the tarmac at Nairobi airport

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verb

1. (tr) (usually not capital) to apply tarmac to

Example Sentences

The two nations have shared a political vision of state-led socialism since a fresh-faced Venezuelan presidential candidate, Hugo Chávez, met the aged leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, on the tarmac at Havana airport in 1999.

From BBC

Maduro was seen surrounded by FBI agents as he descended the boarding stairs of a US government plane at a New York state National Guard facility, and was slowly escorted along the tarmac.

From Barron's

Four days later, “he was on an airplane, on a tarmac, being sent back to El Salvador, a country he had never been to in his life,” Teare said.

From Salon

Another shows him on an airplane tarmac with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of Epstein.

From BBC

“Back in January, the President looked me in the eye on the tarmac at LAX and promised me, and the people of LA, that he’d ‘take care of it’ as we rebuild and recover,” Newsom said in a statement Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times

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