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carrier

noun as in one who carries or transmits something

noun as in a ship that carries airplanes

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The announcement comes as the carrier successfully completed a test with Corning to deploy a private 5G network inside a laboratory.

From Fortune

Though Verizon is the largest wireless carrier overall, with 116 million regular monthly subscribers, it has only 4 million prepaid customers.

From Fortune

That would have meant widespread testing to identify those who had caught the virus, quarantining and tracing the contacts of both symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers who could spread the disease to the most vulnerable.

In more than a half-dozen cases, the carriers persuaded a judge to throw out the lawsuit, in part because the court agreed that a property insurance policy can’t be invoked if there is no property damage.

From Fortune

Your lender will need the name and contact information of your insurance carrier before completing your loan.

The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.

The airplane was owned by an Indonesian budget carrier, Lion Air.

Riffing off the slogan “Now Everyone Can Fly,” the carrier offered no-frills flights that were both cheap and plentiful.

AirAsia, on the other hand, is a relatively new carrier, an upstart in the tradition of Southwest Airlines in the United States.

The NYPD remained his ultimate goal as he went to work as a carrier for Airborne Express/DHL and then as a school safety officer.

She repeated the brief phrases, as well as she could recall them, to a Eurasian whom she found acting as a water-carrier.

And the same goes for any other common carrier—the railroads, bus service, and airlines.

Louis the Goon Engel was a mere walk-on in the piece, a spear-carrier doomed to death.

Instead of being a destroyer of merchandise, this new craft was an unarmed carrier of merchandise.

But it's all right now—they'll throw the letters into the mail-carrier's bag—there'll be many of them—this is general letter day.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to carrier, such as: shipper, bearer, courier, messenger, transporter, and delivery person.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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