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Meaning of hot refuel | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To refuel an aircraft while one of its engines is running.

Examples

“The plane's APU was broken and the airport didn't have ground starting equipment, so we had to hot refuel the bird - if we'd shut both engines down, we wouldn't have been able to get them started again.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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