Sortie - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈsɔːrtɪ|
Brit.
|ˈsɔːtiː|
noun
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position (syn: sally)
- (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
- (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
Extra examples
...an occasional sortie to the city to rummage through some of its numerous used-book stores...
I went on a shopping sortie.
The US and its allies carried out 44,000 sorties during this period.
We made a sortie from our hotel to the open-air market.
Australia's first sortie into the wine trade
It was five months since the battleship had last sortied from home waters.
Word forms
verb
I/you/we/they: sortie
he/she/it: sorties
present participle: sortieing
past tense: sortied
past participle: sortied
I/you/we/they: sortie
he/she/it: sorties
present participle: sortieing
past tense: sortied
past participle: sortied
noun
singular: sortie
plural: sorties
singular: sortie
plural: sorties
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