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shadow fleets

shadow fleets is the plural of shadow fleet.

Meaning of shadow fleet

Noun

shadow fleet (plural shadow fleets)

  1. The collection of vessels utilised by a state to covertly pursue its interests in a way which maintains plausible deniability, such as smuggling to avoid international sanctions, carrying out sabotage, or projecting power in disputed waters.
    • The captain of a suspected “shadow fleet” oil tanker detained off the coast of France will go on trial in February accused of failing to cooperate with authorities.2025 October 3, Miranda Bryant, “Captain of oil tanker linked to Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ to go on trial in France”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about shadow fleets

What is shadow fleets the plural of?
Shadow fleets is the plural of shadow fleet.

Words near shadow fleets in the dictionary

  1. shadow dropping
  2. shadow drops
  3. shadow factories
  4. shadow factory
  5. shadow fleet
  6. shadow fleets
  7. shadow gazer
  8. shadow gazers
  9. shadow government
  10. shadow governments
  11. shadow grass

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