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UK
/ɛmbɑːkˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌɛmbɑɹˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɛmbɑɹˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft
How To Use embarkation In A Sentence
- Embarkation was scheduled for just after 4 pm.
- Please assemble on the deck for disembarkation.
- On the other hand, there is evidence that some of the officers in charge of boats quite expected the embarkation was a precautionary measure and they would all return after daylight. The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons
- An ancient port of east-central Greece in Boeotia. According to tradition, it was the embarkation point for the Greek fleet during the Trojan War.
- Upon embarkation, an account is automatically set up for the passengers to which most shipboard services may be signed and charged.
- The news agency did not mention the refugees' port of embarkation or whether police authorities detained any crew members from the boat attempting to smuggle the refugees into Australia.
- Please fill in this disembarkation card.
- I am led to believe that the Qantas crew involved in this week's emergency disembarkation in Japan didn't have a Japanese language speaker as part of the crew complement.
- The docks represent your point of embarkation on this voyage of self-discovery.
- The drinking continued during his disembarkation leave; and he says that by that stage he was experiencing numerous flashbacks to the traumatic events that he had witnessed.