air drop
/ˈɛr ˌdrɑp/
noun
- The act of delivering supplies or people by dropping them from an aircraft.
- During the rescue, an air-drop delivered life rafts to the stranded sailors.
- The charity used an air-drop to send school supplies to remote villages.
- The military organized an air-drop of food and medicine to the disaster area.
Synonyms
verb
- To deliver something by dropping it from an aircraft.
- The relief organization plans to air-drop blankets to the refugees.
- The pilot will air-drop the supplies at the designated coordinates.
- They decided to air-drop the equipment because the roads were blocked.