disembarkation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
dis- + embarkation or disembark + -ation
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Noun[edit]
disembarkation (countable and uncountable, plural disembarkations)
- The act of disembarking.
- 1946 January and February, 'Talisman', “Bückeburg to Aberayron”, in Railway Magazine, page 41:
- Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.
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References[edit]
- “disembarkation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.