Definition of "fleeter" [fleeter]

• Comparative form of fleet: more fleet (adjective)

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• "A decade of painstaking, often painful lessons resulted in a military that is in many ways fleeter and more adaptable."
• "As they all plunged into a copse of petrified saplings, the fleeter ones darted ahead, the slower ones lagging."
• "Since free-market competition has not yet winnowed the 300-plus electronic medical records (EMR) systems to a viable number of good products, the stimulus will favor the old, clunky, entrenched products over the newer and fleeter."