Meaning of Mats | Babel Free
mætsDefinitions
Acronym of Military Air Transport Service, a consolidation of the US Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) and the United States Air Force Transport Command (ATC) that functioned from June 1 1948 to January 1, 1966.
abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Examples
“There are three Mats in this department.”
“At the controls was Capt. Bill Laughlin, a veteran MATS aircraft commander and his chief pilot in the 41st Air Transport⟳ Squadron.”
“I guess⟳ I really learned that a long time ago, when MATS first began teaching me, but I had overlooked it lately.”
“For the first ten years of its existence MATS operate⟳ with three major air transport⟳ divisions that physically circled the globe.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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