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heliport

[ hel-uh-pawrt, -pohrt, hee-luh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.

heliport

/ ˈhɛlɪˌpɔːt /

First recorded in 1940–45; heli- ² + port ¹

C20: from heli- + port ¹

A police car was parked with roof lights flashing outside the shuttered Wall Street heliport.

Thanks to another weather extreme in a year of record droughts and wildfires, nobody would be landing at the heliport on this day.

However efficient Stinson's operations might have been, their tentacles hadn't reached the 'copter-rental station at the heliport.

When it landed at Region Six heliport, Alec jumped from the ramp and ran to the nearest building.

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