landside
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]landside (not comparable)
- Inland; away from the sea.
- In the freely-accessible area of an airport, outside of security, passport/immigration, and customs control.
- I had to remain landside because I did not have a boarding card.
- 2006 October 15, Roger Collis, “Airport Lounge Programs: How to Get In (and How Much They Cost)”, in The New York Times[1]:
- You can relax, or catch up with work, safe in the knowledge that it’s just a few yards to the gate, assuming the lounge is “airside” (not “landside”).
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “outside the secure zone of an airport”): airside
Noun
[edit]landside (plural landsides)
- The flat bottom part of a plough.
- Coordinate terms: ploughshare, mouldboard, coulter
- The freely-accessible area of an airport, outside of security, passport/immigration, and customs control.
- Antonym: airside