carrier

noun
car·ri·er
/ˈkæɹi.ə/

A person or object that carries someone or something else.

Other meanings

A carrier pigeon.
A person or company in the business of shipping freight.

Related words

anticarrier
biocarrier
carriership
immunocarrier
intercarrier
macrocarrier
megacarrier
microcarrier
multicarrier
crude carrier
nanocarrier
noncarrier

Example sentences

“It takes a lot to sink an aircraft carrier.”
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Word history

From Anglo-Norman "carier,cariour".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “carrier” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.