overflight

A noun referring to a flight by an aircraft over a particular area, especially over foreign territory.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant le vol d'un aéronef au-dessus d'un territoire donné, en particulier d'un territoire étranger.

1. Aerial passage over territory C1 formal

   A flight by an aircraft over a specific area, especially over foreign territory.

   • The country authorized the overflight of its airspace for humanitarian aid.
   • The military conducted an overflight to monitor the border region.
   • Diplomatic tensions rose after an unauthorized overflight was detected.

   🇫🇷survol (de territoire)

   Synonymes: flyoverflypasttransit

• overflights plural form
• overflights' possessive plural form
• overflight's possessive singular form