air marshal

1. 1.

   a person trained by the government in hijacking and terrorist tactics who (for security reasons) is a passenger aboard an airline flight

   Synonymssky marshal

   Broadermarshal

   terrorism

Questions about air marshal

What does air marshal mean?

air marshal means "a person trained by the government in hijacking and terrorist tactics who (for security reasons) is a passenger aboard an airline flight".

What is another word for air marshal?

Close synonyms include sky marshal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air marshal a common word?

air marshal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.