flight
/flɑɪt/ n [C/U] (FLYING)Definition
› an aircraft trip, or the occasion of being a passenger in an aircraft: [C] We’ll be arriving home on Tuesday on flight 147. [C] All flights out of Midway have been canceled because of bad weather. [C] We had a smooth flight all the way. › Flight is also the act or process of flying: [C] We watched a flight of geese (= a group flying together). [U] Some people think that too much money is spent on space flight.
(Definition of flight n (FLYING) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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