| 单词 | mothball fleet |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmothball fleet Navy. Designating or relating to a vessel, installation, etc.: held in reserve, out of service. Originally and chiefly in mothball fleet. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [adjective] mothball1946 mothballed1950 1946 Amer. Notes & Queries Apr. 7/2 ‘Mothball fleet’: inactive U.S. Navy ships to be preserved for long periods by newly-developed techniques. 1947 N.Y. Times 26 Jan. E. 6/5 The moth ball fleet consists of United States warships now undergoing preservative treatment which will enable them to be put back in use rapidly if needed. 1950 Hansard Commons 22 Mar. 2079 We have a ‘moth-ball fleet’, as it is somewhat vulgarly termed in some countries, reasonably widely dispersed..round the United Kingdom. 1990 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 19 Jan. 3/1 If the mothball plan is carried out, the Navy would retain the USS Wisconsin in the Atlantic Fleet and the USS Missouri in the Pacific. 1996 S. Deane Reading in Dark (1997) v. 204 They were stripping down one of the battleships from the mothball fleet that was left over from the war. < as lemmas |
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