air marshal

See also: Air Marshal

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

air marshal (plural air marshals)

1. (US, law enforcement) An armed, undercover guard on a commercial-airline flight.
   • 2018 April 25, Ron Nixon, “Scandals and Investigations, but Few Arrests, for Air Marshals Program”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     T.S.A. said its office of inspection makes quality assurance visits to ensure that the air marshals are properly prepared for their missions. […] Employees with the air marshals view their jobs as crucial to overall efforts to protect airplanes and airports from terrorist attacks.

2. (British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, military) A military rank between that of air vice-marshal and air chief marshal, equivalent to an army lieutenant general.

Synonyms

• (law enforcement): sky marshal

Translations

law enforcement

• German: Air Marshal (de) m, Sky Marshal (de) m

military rank

• German: Air Marshal (de)
• Greek: αντιπτέραρχος (el) (antiptérarchos)
• Irish: aermharascal m

See also

• (law enforcement): Federal Air Marshal Service on Wikipedia.Wikipedia