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# fleet

«fleet» in Mova's school dictionary: **A group of ships, especially navy ships, that sail together** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A group of ships, especially navy ships, that sail together. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [Kublai Khan's fleets twice tried to invade Japan, in 1274 and 1281, and both attempts failed, partly because of storms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/14/)
- [From 1405 to 1433 the Chinese admiral Zheng He led huge fleets across the Indian Ocean as far as East Africa.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/8/)
- [In 1788 the First Fleet of eleven ships brought British convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove to start a prison colony.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/7/)
- [Australia Day on 26 January marks the arrival of the First Fleet, and many Aboriginal people call it Invasion Day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/8/)
- [Vikings reached North America about a thousand years ago, and Chinese fleets under Zheng He sailed to Africa in the early 1400s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/98-explorers-mapping-the-world/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fleet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fleet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.