Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A group of vessels or vehicles, generally operating in a unified way or traveling together. · The vehicles commercially owned by a person, company or agency. · A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; the vessels commanded by a single officer; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc. · 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.
From Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”).
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