courieringn.
/ˈkʊrɪərɪŋ/, /ˈkʌrɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkʊriərɪŋ/, /ˈkəriərɪŋ/ The action of sending a courier, or of being a courier.
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1738 London Evening-post 11–14 Mar. It is not the Grimace of Couriering and demanding Satisfaction to amuse the World, that can possibly save their Honour.
1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. in H. Randolph Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. viii. 386 I have done with couriering if a soldier can fix a resolution.
2018 Arab News (Nexis) 20 July The perpetrators arrested included..41 individuals from different nationalities for their involvement in crimes of smuggling, possession, couriering and dealing of narcotic drugs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1738- rollicky
- rollie
- rollin rollout
- rolling
- rolling action
- rolling around
- rolling axis
- rolling back
- rolling barrel
- rolling bee
- rolling boil
- rolling book
- rolling bridge
- rolling calf
- rolling chair
- rolling chamber
- rolling chock
- rolling cleat
- rolling contact
- rolling coulter
- rolling croquet
- rolling cultivator
- rolling down
- rolling drag
- rolling drunk