Definition of "airbase" []

• A military airport, providing housing and support for aircraft and personnel. (noun)

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• "The U.S. has a strategic relationship with Bishkek through its use of Manas airbase, which is used to supply U.S. coalition-led troops in Afghanistan."
• "Finally, the U.S. must do some housecleaning of its own and start acting as an honest broker in the region: the ongoing congressional investigation into the deals it struck with the Bakiev regime for the use of the airbase is a step in the right direction."
• "HARRIS: And with that, you see there the door closing on the final set of remains to be taken off of this C-17, carrying this somber and sad cargo from Afghanistan to Ramstein airbase, which is where our Matthew Chance has been standing by at post watching all of this from vantage point of just being a few yards away -- Matthew."