fly

/flaɪ/ verb (flew, flown)

Definition

› [I] TRANSPORT to travel in an aircraft: How long does it take to fly from Heathrow to Los Angeles?fly out of/into somewhere More and more business executives are flying out of the state's commercial airports.fly business class/economy/standby They flew business class to Johannesburg overnight.

› [T + adv/prep] TRANSPORT to transport people or goods by aircraft: Oil workers are flown by helicopter to the rigs.

› [I] informal to be successful or popular: We're hoping the new brand name will fly.

fly a kite › to make a suggestion in order to get the reaction of others to it: In my opinion he is flying a kite that would destroy the private enterprise system.

(Definition of fly verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)