I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fleet admiral
Fleet Street
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
entire
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An entire fleet of the most advanced ships was sent to get it back.
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But despite the general quiet of the anchorage, one felt the excitement permeating the entire fleet .
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He took part in the ensuing operation at Santa Cruz in April, in which the entire plate fleet was destroyed.
fishing
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Big catch: The fishing fleets at Scarborough and Whitby have broken all records despite the recession.
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We will continue to work for the profitable and sustainable future of our fishing fleet .
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This provides shelter for a small fishing fleet , which supports a population of nearly a hundred people.
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Freighters, tankers and a modern fishing fleet trafficked the old sea lanes.
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The Aral has lost 40 percent of its surface as well as its fish and the fishing fleets that netted them.
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The small port supports a picturesque fishing fleet .
large
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In 1783 she proceeded to annex the nominally independent Crimea and to construct a large Black Sea fleet .
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On Cnut's refusal, he commanded the construction and assembly of a large fleet at Fécamp.
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In an experienced large fleet everyone is so keen to get a good start that a bulge often forms.
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Throughout this period Britain had the largest fleet in the world.
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Hull has one of the country's largest trawler fleets .
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Today most ports have only a few fishing boats but large fleets still work from three of the ports.
small
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To collect a small fleet would take a week or two.
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In 1585 Raleigh sent out a small fleet under his cousin Sir Richard Grenville.
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This provides shelter for a small fishing fleet , which supports a population of nearly a hundred people.
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A dispatcher for a small fleet of trucks, he found it hard not to get rattled when the calls piled up.
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Conwy's river and estuary bustle with activity, with a small fishing fleet adding colour to the scene.
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The small fleet of Amantani boats with their distinctive green plumb-line idle there.
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The small fleet of 37's used on the Cambrian is being dispersed to Petroleum and other sectors.
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A small fleet , but no smaller then Siward's will be, considering what manpower he has.
■ NOUN
battle
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Running low on fuel Fuchida headed directly back to the battle fleet , now 190 miles north of Oahu.
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Anyone faced by a battle fleet is going to feel a sharp sense of scale.
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Jellicoe and his battle fleet were still well to the north.
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I have seen battle fleets in the Black Sea and the great war galleons of the Caspian.
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Those that did, turned on to the Zeros who were by now enroute to other targets and then back to the battle fleet .
merchant
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As Parker points out, the average age of the world merchant fleet is now 16 years.
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During the war I had felt the same about those they were attacking, the brave men of the Allied merchant fleets .
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At Bristol and Liverpool slavers did make up significant proportions of the merchant fleets .
■ VERB
build
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To achieve this, the Museum has built and flown a fleet of replicas.
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Shortly afterwards, he secretly arranged for the building of a cargo fleet to carry the ore via the Great Lakes.
join
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New yachts or windsurfers join our fleets every year.
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They should join the fleet after adequate and complete training.
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Her Euboian ally Eretria added five, and may have sent more to join the Ionian fleet in the Levant.
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The first will join the fleet in just over a year.
operate
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Transport workers are employed in all sectors of the economy, for example in manufacturing firms who operate vehicle fleets .
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Members of the Doyle family had worked for a company operating a fleet of ice-cream vans in the city.
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The civilian operator will be required to own and operate a fleet of twenty trainers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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There are unconfirmed reports that the seventh fleet is moving into the area.
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We have the largest fleet of trucks in the state.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fleet of more than 20 ambulances took the victims - believed to include several children - to hospital.
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A year's preparation may have gone into the assembling of a fleet of warships and transport vessels.
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Since then his fleet has swelled from 28 to 125, advertising products as disparate as detergent, pharmaceuticals and fans.
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The almighty dollar can rejuvenate the fleet of just about any airline.
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The ban was imposed on the grounds that dolphins were being killed by the tuna fleet .
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The defect is said to be the first of its kind in Britain's fleet of nuclear-powered submarines.
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Transport workers are employed in all sectors of the economy, for example in manufacturing firms who operate vehicle fleets.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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On, O joyful, be fleet .