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{
"term": "fleet",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a group of military ships commanded by the same person",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a fleet of destroyers"
},
{
"text": "Nelson destroyed the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar."
},
{
"text": "The entire fleet was sunk."
},
{
"text": "The ship sailed to join the fleet at Barbados."
}
],
"topics": ["War and conflict"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["entire", "great", "huge"],
"verb + fleet": ["operate", "command", "send"],
"preposition": ["in a/the fleet", "fleet of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a group of ships fishing together",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **fishing/whaling fleet**"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["entire", "great", "huge"],
"verb + fleet": ["operate", "command", "send"],
"preposition": ["in a/the fleet", "fleet of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "all the military ships of a particular country",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a reduction in the size of the British fleet"
},
{
"text": "The fleet was mobilized and the country prepared for war."
},
{
"text": "There were over 500 ships in the enemy fleet."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["entire", "great", "huge"],
"verb + fleet": ["operate", "command", "send"],
"preposition": ["in a/the fleet", "fleet of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a group of planes, buses, taxis, etc. travelling together or owned by the same organization",
"sensetop": "fleet (of something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the company’s new fleet of vans"
},
{
"text": "a fleet car/vehicle"
},
{
"text": "a fleet of taxis"
},
{
"text": "the company car fleet"
},
{
"text": "The airline is doubling the size of its fleet."
},
{
"text": "There were plans to modernize the tram and bus fleet."
},
{
"text": "The injured were taken to hospital in a fleet of ambulances."
},
{
"text": "A fleet of army trucks had surrounded the barn."
},
{
"text": "Their entire fleet of aircraft were destroyed."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["entire", "great", "huge"],
"verb + fleet": ["operate", "command", "send"],
"preposition": ["in a/the fleet", "fleet of"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fliːt/",
"audio": "fl/fleet/fleet__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fliːt/",
"audio": "fl/fleet/fleet__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "noun Old English flēot ‘ship, shipping’, from flēotan ‘float, swim’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlieten and German fliessen, also to flit and float."
}