Meaning

1 senses
  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.

    Schattenflotte

    тенево́й флотtenevój flot

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
collection of vessels covertly:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
collection of vessels covertly:

Origin

From shadow + fleet.

From shadow + fleet.

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Forms

plural: shadow fleets
Singularshadow fleet
Pluralshadow fleets

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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