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airtime /ˈɛːtʌɪm /noun [mass noun]1Time during which a broadcast is being transmitted: advertising takes up half the airtime on that radio station...- The broadcast networks devoted less airtime to the event than ever before.
- It will cover a large range of popular music genres and artists giving a national platform to the more obscure and less commercial tracks that rarely receive airtime on radio.
- The law requires that television stations provide free airtime to candidates, and ratings for these advertisement blocks rival the World Cup.
1.1The time during which a mobile phone is in use.Although we had enough airtime on our mobile phones, it was impossible to call for a rescue bus because the area had no mobile phone network....- It would also be in dire trouble if regulators relaxed constraints on the mobile market about supplying airtime to competitors.
- Then came the phone card; prepaid airtime, to be used as needed.
2The time a pilot or aircraft spends in flight: the operation has seen already 15 sorties flown and more than 150 hours of airtime logged...- Because of the ease of transportation of paragliding, far more paragliding pilots go abroad, they make those trips more often, and hence more airtime flown abroad.
- Phillips doubled his airtime and flew some demo wings.
- New to the job, Schwartz has been logging hours of airtime traveling to the firm's 127 retail stores throughout the country.
2.1(In snowboarding, skiing, etc.) the time a person spends in the air during a jump: a thirty-foot jump gave competitors plenty of airtime...- With this line of futuristic ski gear you can take the guessing out of things such as jump airtime, speed, and vertical distance traveled on the slopes.
- Riders negotiate several jumps designed to elicit enough airtime to perform an arsenal of tricks.
- After the extensive airtime of the first 2 jumps, the riders will face a step-up jump into the first berm.
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