1. A group of ships travelling together or operating under the same ownership
   "The merchant fleet sailed across the Atlantic"
    
2. A group of warships organized as a tactical unit
   "The naval fleet patrolled the coastline"
    
3. Group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
   "The airline expanded its fleet with new long-haul planes"
    
4. Group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
   "The company's fleet of delivery trucks covered the entire city"

1. Moving very fast
   "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels";
   - swift

1. Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
   "The birds fleeted across the sky";
   - flit, flutter, dart
    
2. Disappear gradually
   "The summer days fleeted by";
   - evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, pass

Derived forms: fleeting, fleets, fleeted, fleeter, fleetest

See also: fast

Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, barrel [informal], belt [informal], belt along [informal], bucket [informal], bucket along [informal], collection, disappear, go away, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, hurry, pelt [informal], pelt along [informal], race, rocket [informal], rush, rush along, speed, steamship company, steamship line, step on it [informal], travel rapidly, vanish, whizz [informal], whizz along [informal], wing [informal], zip [informal], zoom, zoom along [informal]

Part of: airline, airline business, airway, bus line, naval forces, navy

Encyclopedia: Fleet, Kent