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flagship
[ flag-ship ]
noun
- a ship carrying the flag officer or the commander of a fleet, squadron, or the like, and displaying the officer's flag.
- the main vessel of a shipping company.
- any of the best or largest ships or airplanes operated by a passenger line.
- the best or most important one of a group or system:
This store is the flagship of our retail chain.
adjective
- being or constituting a flagship.
flagship
/ ˈڱæɡˌʃɪ /
noun
- a ship, esp in a fleet, aboard which the commander of the fleet is quartered
- the most important ship belonging to a shipping company
- a single item from a related group considered as the most important, often in establishing a public image
the nine o'clock news is the flagship of the BBC
Example Sentences
The Royal Navy's flagship HMS Prince of Wales is set to depart on one of its biggest deployments yet.
The corporation said presenters of flagship programmes, such as Match of the Day, "carry a particular responsibility to respect the BBC's impartiality, because of their profile on the BBC".
In conservation, the term "flagship species" is used to refer to animals that represent something bigger, like an entire ecosystem.
It was considered a key part of the government's flagship infrastructure project - the high-speed line from Belgrade to Budapest in Hungary.
But this first-time crossover continues a long tradition of the Phil’s music directors sharing mutual curiosity with the city’s other flagship music industries.
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