carriernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkær.i.ər/us/ˈker.i.ɚ/carrier noun [ C ] (TRANSPORT)
a person or thing that carries something
a company that operates aircraft
used as a combining form, especially in phrases that refer to military vehicles of a type that carry other vehicles or groups of soldiers:
informal for aircraft carrier
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Transferring and transporting objects
- bearer
- borne
- bring
- budge
- bus
- call for sb
- drop
- ferry
- freight
- pick sb/sth up
- put sb down somewhere
- road haulage
- route
- spirit
- tear 1
- tear sb away
- tote
- transfer
- transport
- transportation
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carrier noun [ C ] (BAG)
UK also carrier bag US shopping bag a large plastic or paper bag with handles, used to carry things that you have bought, especially one given to you in a shop
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Bags in general
- bag
- bag for life
- bagful
- carry on
- doggy bag
- feedbag
- goody bag
- gunnysack
- man bag
- nosebag
- packet
- party bag
- pencil case
- polybag
- pouch
- sachet
- sack
- string bag
- trug
carrier noun [ C ] (SPREAD)
someone who does not suffer from a disease but has the infection or genetic fault that causes it and can give the disease to someone else:
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Passing on illness & causing disease
- carry
- catch
- communicate
- contagious
- epidemic
- incubate
- infect
- infected
- infest
- insalubrious
- mediastinum
- non-communicable
- prophylactic
- transmission
- transmit
- unhygienic
- vector
- verminous
- virulence
- virulent
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