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# fleet

noun (a fleet, fleets); adjective (fleet — literary)

«fleet» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A group of ships, especially navy ships, that sail together. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#m1)
2. A group of buses, taxis, planes or lorries owned by one company: a fleet of taxis. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#m2)
3. (adjective, literary) Fast and light on your feet: fleet of foot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#m3)

### In the lessons

In history fleets of ships fought and explored; in everyday life a company has a fleet of vans; in maths problems a fleet has a number of vehicles, each carrying a number of people. Phrases: «a fleet of ships», «a fleet of buses», «fleet-footed», «fishing fleet».

### Examples

- The fleet sailed out of the harbour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#x1)
- The bus company has a fleet of 40 buses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#x2)
- A fishing fleet came back with full nets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#x3)
- The school hired a fleet of coaches for the trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#x4)
- If each of the 5 buses in the fleet carries 50 people, the fleet carries 250. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#x5)
- The deer was fleet of foot. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#x6)
- He assembled his fleet and all the seamen, and set out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#x7)

### Note

A fleet is a group noun: «a fleet of ships». In maths, fleet total = number of vehicles × how many each holds. Not the same as «flight» (a group of birds or a plane journey).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fleet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fleet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fleet.html) on Mova free.