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sortie

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sortie/ˈsɔːti/

▶noun

1 an attack by troops coming out from a position of defence.
■ an operational flight by a single military aircraft.

2 a short trip.

▶verb (sorties, sortieing, sortied) make a sortie.

– origin C18: from Fr., fem. past part. of sortir ‘go out’.

'sortie' also found in these Oxford entries:

sally - sally port

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