EGAVE

fleet

About 14.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A group of vessels or vehicles, generally operating in a unified way or traveling together.
    A fleet of warships is heading this way.
  2. noun The vehicles commercially owned by a person, company or agency.
    She owns a fleet of private medical transport vans.
  3. noun A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; the vessels commanded by a single officer; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
    We must invest in our fleet for our national security.
  4. noun Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
  5. noun A large, coordinated group of people.
  6. noun Any group of associated items. A street gang.
  7. noun A street gang.
  8. noun The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

fleeted fleeter fleetest fleeting fleetly fleetness fleetnesses fleets

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