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sortie
[ sawr-tee ]
noun
- a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- a body of troops involved in such a movement.
- the flying of an airplane on a combat mission.
verb (used without object)
sortied, sortieing.
- to go on a sortie; sally forth.
sortie
/ ˈsɔːtɪ /
noun
- (of troops, etc) the act of emerging from a contained or besieged position
- the troops doing this
- an operational flight made by one aircraft
- a short or relatively short return trip
verb
- intr to make a sortie
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sortie1
1680–90; < French, noun use of feminine past participle of sortir to go out
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sortie1
C17: from French: a going out, from sortir to go out
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Example Sentences
River are all part of the perfect Sunday sortie for the ‘Animal Control’ star.
From Los Angeles Times
But this time the Russian plane wasn’t on a bombing sortie.
From Los Angeles Times
"When Russian forces deployed to Syria in 2015, they flew almost 300 sorties in two weeks, and that was before base expansion," she wrote on X.
From BBC
The first aerial sorties went up at midnight on Bastille Day, July 14.
From Los Angeles Times
Think of Operation Ocean Venture of the 1980s: U.S. air sorties deep into Russia from carriers improbably parked in icy Norwegian fjords ultimately convinced the Soviet top brass they could not stop us.
From Los Angeles Times
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