embarkation
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em·bark
(ĕm-bärk′)v. em·barked, em·bark·ing, em·barks
v.tr.
1. To cause to board a vessel or aircraft: stopped to embark passengers.
2. To enlist (a person or persons) or invest (capital) in an enterprise.
v.intr.
1. To go aboard a vessel or aircraft, as at the start of a journey.
2. To set out on a venture; commence: embark on a world tour.
[French embarquer, from Late Old French, probably from Medieval Latin imbarcāre : Latin in-, in- + barca, boat; see bark3.]
em′bar·ka′tion, em·bark′ment n.
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embarkation
The process of putting personnel and/or vehicles and their associated stores and equipment into ships and/or aircraft. See also loading.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Noun | 1. | embarkation - the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft debarkation, disembarkation, disembarkment - the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft |
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Translations
رُكوب السَّفينَه، مُباشَرَة السَّفَر
ombordstigning
hajóra szállás
útskipun
nalodenie
binme
embarkation
[ˌembɑːˈkeɪʃən]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
embarkation
[ˌɛmbɑːrˈkeɪʃən] n (= boarding) [passengers] → embarquement m; [goods, vehicles] → embarquement m, chargement membarkation card n → carte f d'embarquementCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
embarkation
n
→ Einschiffung f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
embark
(imˈbaːk) verb to go, or put, on board ship. Passengers should embark early.
ˌembarˈkation (em-) nounembark on
to start or engage in. She embarked on a new career.
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