fleetness

fleet | American Dictionary

fleet
noun[ C ]
us/flit/

fleetnoun[C] (SHIPS)

all the ships in the navy of a country, or a number of ships operating as a unit within a navy

fleetnoun[C] (VEHICLES)

a number of aircraft, buses, cars, or other vehicles under the control of one company or organization:
He owns a fleet of taxis.

fleet | Business English

fleet
noun[ C ]
 TRANSPORTuk /fliːt/us
a number of cars, buses, planes, etc. under the control of one person or organization:
The company has around 1000 buses in its fleet.
a fleet of 20 corporate jets
a vehicle/aircraft/bus fleet
car rental fleets
a group of boats or ships travelling together:
a fleet of yachts

Examples of fleet

fleet
Portuguese royal fleets would have freedom of the bay.
By its nature, the journalist's footing as journalist is sustained, while that of the speaker as ironist is fleeting.
The local details, therefore, are fleeting but informative and graphically displayed.
However, fashion attracted him in the first place because it was associated with frivolity, fleeting fads, expense, and meaninglessness.
Elements such as the shine of metal armour, the folds of clothes and draper y and, above all, fleeting facial expressions such as laughter, are transformed.
The sight of fishless sushi houses surrounded by fishing fleets and salad-less restaurants surrounded by fields of lettuce and tomatoes prompted many chefs to visit a farm or dock.
As studies of both hypnagogic imagery and "disorders of arousal" demonstrate, even fleeting experiences of hallucinatory content are sufficient to generate bona fide, albeit diminutive, reports of dream mentation.
Both fleets will suffer very serious injury.
The equality of 1900 was fleeting.
The longline and mini and medium-scale purse seine fleets display considerable excess capacity, especially when the capacity output includes the effects of technical inefficiency (table 2).
All else being equal, the epistemic status of a mild and fleeting religious conviction is more vulnerable to epistemic impact from diversity than a deep and abiding one.
Perhaps most significantly, exploring some of these themes allows a glimpse of the fragile, contingent, and fleeting processes that are sometimes catalogued under the category of cultural change.
Such metaphors are no less forceful at those brief moments when the solo voices broach sound-images of distress, and fleeting contact with operatic precedent is made.
All the fleets were fully manned with their proper complements.
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