sortie
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- n a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- n (military) an operational flight by a single aircraft (as in a military operation)
- Except for a few digressive scenes a solo sortie of personal vengeance, a conversation about what it all means that could easily be cut from the 2 hr.
- Marine jets began flying sortie after sortie with 1,000-lb.
- Michael Dunlea AP The trip in question was a 16-mile sortie from a Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Hampshire, southern England to a field next to Middleton's house in the county of .