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Definition of Boatlift
1. Noun. The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or goods by boat, especially an exodus of people. ¹
2. Noun. (also boat lift) A mechanism for lifting boats from the water, or between water on different elevations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boatlift
1. to transport by boats [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boatlift
Literary usage of Boatlift
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (1994)
"Limited use of profiles was made during the early 1970s and again in 1980, when
immigrants from the Mariel boatlift began hijacking aircraft to Cuba. ..."
2. U.S.-Cuban Relations in the 21st Century: A Follow-On Chairmen's Report of by William D. Rogers, Bernard W. Aronson, Julia Sweig (2001)
"... the United States, their relatives and friends in Florida would likely head
to sea to rescue them, as occurred in the Mariel Harbor boatlift of 1980. ..."
3. Transatlantic Economic Relations in the Post-Cold War Era by Barry J. Eichengreen (1998)
"... techniques or by focusing on event studies (such as the Mariel boatlift to
Miami or the immigration of Algerian expatriates to France in 1962). ..."
4. Hispanics and the Future of America by Marta Tienda, Faith Mitchell (2006)
"... came as exiles to the United States after 1959 and the legal status accorded
to them subsequently (at least until the chaotic Mariel boatlift of 125000 ..."
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