COMMON CARRIER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

Synonyms:

carrier; common carrier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("common carrier" is a kind of...):

business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "common carrier"):

line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)

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