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ˈflagship, n. (a.)
Also flag-ship.
[f. flag n.4 + ship n.]
1. A ship bearing an admiral's flag.
1672Lond. Gaz. No. 684/4 We..believe there are several other sunk, and amongst the rest a Flagship. 1740Johnson Life Blake Wks. IV. 369 With the loss of one flagship, and six other men of war. 1887Spectator 30 July 1019/1 The ‘Inflexible’, the flagship for the Admiral.
2. a. transf. and fig. A leader; something that is or is held to be the best of its kind; spec. the major product, model, etc., in a company's range.
1933M. Arlen Man's Mortality xiii. 261 Knut Helgar sat drinking lager in the control-room of his flagship, I. A. Valkyr [sc. an aircraft]. 1955Wall St. Jrnl. 13 Jan. 3/1 ‘Flagship’ of the network is..what Allied calls ‘the greatest regional shopping center the nation has ever seen’. 1968Listener 23 May 669/1 The Mirror in the past has always been the Fleet Street flagship of the Socialist party. 1976Milestones Winter 31/1 BMW's largest six-cylinder range... Engine sizes range from the 2500 up to the 3.3-litre unit fitted to this, their flagship. 1985Listener 14 Feb. 3/3 The flagship of the devolution strategy, the resiting of one of London's four publicly funded symphony orchestras in Nottingham, seems stuck in the Thames mud.
b. attrib. or as adj. Representing the leading product, etc., in a range; specially promoted.
1977Listener 20 Oct. 502/1 Flagship programmes on BBC TV were offered as remedies. 1978Daily Tel. 4 Oct. 14/5 Opel's new flagship model, the three-litre Monza coupé. 1981Times 7 Dec. 13/8 THF's flagship hotel, Grosvenor House. 1985Truck & Driver June 18/4 They now found themselves short of flagship trucks to sell. |