Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ship that carries a fleet or squadron commander and bears the commander's flag.
- noun The chief one of a related group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ship which bears the flag-officer of a squadron or fleet, and on which his flag is displayed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) The vessel which carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun In a
maritime fleet , theship occupied by the fleet'scommander (usually anadmiral ); it denotes this byflying hisflag . - noun The most
important one out of a related group.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the chief one of a related group
- noun the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag
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To what they called their flagship programme for the vulnerable section of the
WN.com - Articles related to Belarus eyes duty-free Russian oil pending 2010 deal 2009
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To what they called their flagship programme for the vulnerable section of the
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Qatar's flagship is Education City, home to seven distinguished American universities.
Anne Peterson: I Heart the Qatar Foundation Anne Peterson 2010
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Qatar's flagship is Education City, home to seven distinguished American universities.
Anne Peterson: I Heart the Qatar Foundation Anne Peterson 2010
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Qatar's flagship is Education City, home to seven distinguished American universities.
Anne Peterson: I Heart the Qatar Foundation Anne Peterson 2010
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His flagship is Improve-Education. org (which now has 40 intellectual articles, 5 of them about reading).
Memo to Educators: Stop the Lies About Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Qatar's flagship is Education City, home to seven distinguished American universities.
Anne Peterson: I Heart the Qatar Foundation Anne Peterson 2010
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Qatar's flagship is Education City, home to seven distinguished American universities.
Anne Peterson: I Heart the Qatar Foundation Anne Peterson 2010
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Of course, Ford's new performance flagship is a bit slower than its predecessor, but it's still chock full of heritage and collectibility like the GT. www.enterbet.com
$200K Ford GT Crash + Federated Media Portal Ben Barren 2006
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He referred to the flagship system as the “mother hen and chickens” breakthrough.
DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001
frindley commented on the word flagship
"Your flagship orchestra." Eeeerrrrrgh!
(Actually, "Your orchestra" is bad enough.)
August 3, 2008
alexz commented on the word flagship
seen 'flagship' refer to the new full featured phones - 2015.
"flagship phone" "flagship device"
August 16, 2015