Meaning

noun group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership

noun group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership

noun a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership

originFrom Middle English flete (“bay, gulf”), from Old English flēot (“a bay, gulf, an arm of the sea, estuary, the mouth of a river”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą. Cognate with Dutch vliet (“stream, river, creek, inlet”), German Fleet (“watercourse, canal”).

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