Usually means: Collection of vehicles operating together.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. fleet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fleet, fleet, fleet, fleet, fleet, the fleet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fleet, fleet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fleet, the Fleet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fleet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fleet, fleet: Wordnik
  7. fleet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fleet, fleet: Wiktionary
  9. fleet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fleet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fleet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fleet, fleet, the fleet: Dictionary.com
  13. fleet (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fleet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fleet (disambiguation), Fleet (horse), Fleet, The Fleet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fleet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fleet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fleet: Rhymezone
  19. fleet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fleet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fleet: Free Dictionary
  22. fleet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Fleet, fleet: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. The Fleet, fleet: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fleet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. fleet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fleet: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. fleet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Fleet, fleet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Fleet (laxative): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FLEET: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. fleet: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fleet, Fleet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fleet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Fleet: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A group of vessels or vehicles.
noun:  Any group of associated items.
noun:  A large, coordinated group of people.
noun:  (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
noun:  (nautical, British Royal Navy) 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.
noun:  (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
noun:  (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To float.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
verb:  (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
verb:  (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
verb:  (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
verb:  (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
verb:  (nautical, obsolete) To shift the position of dead-eyes when the shrouds are become too long.
verb:  To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
verb:  To take the cream from; to skim.
adjective:  (literary) Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
adjective:  (uncommon) Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
noun:  A river (the River Fleet) in London, England, now buried underground, that flowed under the Eastern end of the present Fleet Street.
noun:  A former prison (the Fleet Prison) in London, which originally stood near the stream.
noun:  A river, the Water of Fleet, in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland.
noun:  A river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows into Loch Fleet.
noun:  A town and civil parish with a town council in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8054).
noun:  A village and civil parish in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3823).
noun:  A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Yorkshire) Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”). [(rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.]

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