Lexic.us

Definition of Embarkation

1. Noun. The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft.

Definition of Embarkation

1. n. The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.

Definition of Embarkation

1. Noun. The act of embarking. ¹

2. Noun. The process of loading military personnel and vehicles etc into ships or aircraft. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embarkation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embarkation

Literary usage of Embarkation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Road to France: The Transportation of Troops and Military Supplies, 1917 by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"The Port of embarkation, we have seen, was created as a military entity in July, 1917, a few days after the first convoy had departed ..."

2. The Giant Hand: Our Mobilization and Control of Industry and Natural by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson (1921)
"The Chief of embarkation brought an estimate of his port facilities for the ... The embarkation director stationed in America by the British Ministry of ..."

3. Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of by Robert Stewart Castlereagh (1851)
"My dear Lord—In my instructions of yesterday, my sugges-. tion with respect to the actual embarkation of the troops, till the return of the messenger from ..."

4. Why Europe Leaves Home: A True Account of the Reasons which Cause Central by Kenneth Lewis Roberts (1922)
"Ports of embarkation THERE were three young men from the American Consulate sitting behind a long counter in a big room at a Northern European port of ..."

5. Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1905)
"Some days before the battle of the Thames the embarkation from Niagara for ... On the 25th embarkation began, and Wilkinson hoped that the whole body, ..."

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