Common Carrier

Definition: Common Carrier

Common Carrier

Noun

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

Domain	Definition
Computing	Common carrier (Or "phone company") A private company that offers telecommunications services to the public. (1995-03-20). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Shipping	A transportation company which provides service to the general public at published rates. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Common Carrier

Synonym: carrier (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ship	Jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft.
Vehicle	Noun: vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van; common carrier; wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Common Carrier

English words defined with "common carrier": freight, freight rate, freightage ♦ line. (references)

Specialty definitions using "common carrier": Contract Carrier ♦ data access arrangement, dedicated access lines, dedicated channel, diplex transmission ♦ Interstate Carrier ♦ leased line ♦ Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier ♦ telco ♦ video dial tone. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	California Railroads: An Encyclopedia of Cable Car, Common Carrier, Horsecar, Industrial Interurban, Logging, Monorail, Motor Road, Short Lines, stre (reference) Common carrier video delivery by telephone companies (reference) International Common Carrier Transportation Industry and the Competitiveness of the Foreign Trade of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (reference) North Carolina Railroads: The Common Carrier Railroads of North Carolina (reference) Railroad names : a directory of common carrier railroads operating in the United States, 1826-1992 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Depending on the choice, the customer pays the lowest price for the machine "ex works" (the price when collecting the machine directly from its manufacturer), or the price including the cost of the machine plus insurance, plus the cost of transportation to the chosen location or common carrier. (references)
Economic History	Russia	There is an additional 63,000 km of track serving specific industries, and not available for common carrier use. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "common carrier": other common carrier. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "common carrier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kompani transporti. (various references)

Danish		telefonselskab, offentlig transportvirksomhed (public carrier, public haulier). (various references)

Dutch		carrier (aircraft-carrier), telecommunicatiedienst (carrier, commercial telecommunications carrier), openbare vervoerder (public carrier, public haulier), openbare datacommunicatiedienst. (various references)

French		transporteur public, transporteur (conveyer), société de télécommunications, porteur, exploitant de réseau (commercial telecommunications carrier), entreprise de télécommunications, entreprise de communications. (various references)

German		Netzbetreiber (carrier). (various references)

Greek		κοινός φορέας, δημόσιος μεταφορέας (public carrier, public haulier). (various references)

Hungarian		szállítóvállalat, szállítócég. (various references)

Italian		impresa privata di telecomunicazioni, imprenditore di trasporto pubblico (public carrier, public haulier). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		コミュニケーション科学基礎� "究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collaborator, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		コモンキャリア . (various references)

Manx		erreyder cadjin. (various references)

Pig Latin		ommoncay arriercay

Portuguese		empresa de transportes pública (public carrier, public haulier), empresa de telecomunicações. (various references)

Spanish		compañía de servicio de telecomunicaciones, transportista público (public carrier, public haulier). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-m-m-n-o-o-r-r-r"
	-4 letters: aeronomic, monomeric.
	-5 letters: acromion, cocinera, coenamor, coercion, commoner, economic, ricercar, romancer.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
common carrier	31
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Common Carrier

Definition: Common Carrier

Common Carrier

Noun

Specialty Definition: Common Carrier

Computing

Shipping

Synonym: Common Carrier

Synonyms within Context: Common Carrier

Ship

Vehicle

Crosswords: Common Carrier

Commercial Usage: Common Carrier

Books

Non-Fiction Usage: Common Carrier

Business

Economic History

Russia

Expression: Common Carrier

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Common Carrier

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Modern Translation: Common Carrier

Albanian

Danish

Dutch

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Spanish

Anagrams: Common Carrier

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