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flagships

flagships is the plural of flagship.

flagships is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flagship.

Meaning of flagship

Noun

flagship (plural flagships)

  1. The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.
    • After Russia’s flagship in the Black Sea, the Moskva, sank last week, the authorities said that the entire crew of more than 500 had been rescued.2022 April 21, Neil MacFarquhar, Alina Lobzina, “With sunken warship, Russian disinformation faces a test.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. The ship regarded as most important out of a group, e.g. a nation's navy or company's fleet.
  3. (attributive, broadly, often) The most important one out of a related group.
    • The retail company's store in London is their flagship.

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Questions about flagships

What is flagships the plural of?
Flagships is the plural of flagship.

Words near flagships in the dictionary

  1. flags up
  2. flagship
  3. flagship species
  4. flagshipped
  5. flagshipping
  6. flagships
  7. Flagstad
  8. flagstaff
  9. Flagstaff County
  10. Flagstaff Gully
  11. flagstaffite

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