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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