Definition of "airstrip" [air•strip]

• See landing strip. (noun)

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• "More criticism of the way the U. S.-controlled airstrip is being administeredhere."
• "To get near Everest, you must either walk for 10 days or fly to Lukla, a remote mountain airstrip where flights are notoriously unreliable."
• "Howland Island: airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia EARHART and Fred NOONAN; the aviators left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island but were never seen again; the airstrip is no longer serviceable"
• "“What you experienced at the airstrip is what I experienced at Jonestown,” Carter said almost 30 years after that horrible day."
• "The airstrip is useable by both untra-lights and airplanes, although the length of the strip would limit what you would be able to bring in (or take out)."