fleet
noun · verb · adjective
Simple meaning
Group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership.
Pronunciation
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fleetIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈflit
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
Group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
A group of vessels or vehicles.
Any group of associated items.
A large, coordinated group of people.
A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
verb
intransitive
To flee, to escape, to speed away.
Disappear gradually
intransitive
To evanesce, disappear, die out.
To take the cream from; to skim.
To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
adjective
literary
Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B1 · Intermediate (estimated)
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Varies by meaning
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: Group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
Used this way, fleet is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use fleet
- “The company owns a large fleet of delivery trucks.”
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
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Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
An admiral of the highest rank.
A submarine carrying ballistic missiles.
A street in central London where newspaper offices are situated.
Thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1943.
A fleet of warships prepared for battle.
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