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trans-Atlantic

Adjective

Meaning

trans-Atlantic (not comparable)

Alternative form of transatlantic

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

A Homeland Security official told the newspaper that the agency was in the early stages of working to 'safely encourage trans-Atlantic travel while mitigating public-health risks.' Source: Internet

An ambitious, genre-hopping, continent-spanning novel that uses the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the backdrop for a magical realist adventure. Source: Internet

Charles Lindberg took off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in 1927, completing the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight from the United States. Source: Internet

In order to gain access to European and trans-Atlantic institutions, it has had to undo many negative effects of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the war that ensued, and improve and maintain good relations with its neighbors. Source: Internet

By being so deeply involved in trade, Bermuda merchants and financiers had played roles out of proportion to the colony's size in relation to the development of the Triangle Trade, and the trans-Atlantic English and British empires. Source: Internet

Gombrowicz's work is also well known for its playful allusions and satire, as in a section of Trans-Atlantic written in a the form of a stylised 19th-century diary, followed by a parody of a traditional fable. Source: Internet

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