Definition of "flagship" []

• A ship that carries a fleet or squadron commander and bears the commander's flag. (noun)
• The chief one of a related group: the flagship of a newspaper chain; the flagship of a line of reference books. (noun)

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• "To what they called their flagship programme for the vulnerable section of the"
• "Qatar's flagship is Education City, home to seven distinguished American universities."
• "His flagship is Improve-Education. org (which now has 40 intellectual articles, 5 of them about reading)."