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| Main Entry: |
conveyance
 [kuhn-vey-uhns] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transport |
| Synonyms: | car, carriage, carrying, communication, machine, movement, transfer, transference, transmission, transportation, vehicle |
| Antonyms: | hold, possession |
| Main Entry: | carriage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delivery of freight |
| Synonyms: | carrying, conveyance, conveying, delivering, freight, transit, transport, transportation |
| Main Entry: | charter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treaty, agreement |
| Synonyms: | allotment, bond, code, concession, constitution, contract, conveyance, deed, document, endowment, franchise, grant, indenture, license, pact, patent, permit, prerogative, privilege, right, settlement |
Example Sentences
- At an early hour to-day people were pouring into the city by every sort of conveyance.
- The varied means of conveyance illustrate the many recreational opportunities available on the lands along the route.
- The elevator is a jerky conveyance that does not inspire confidence.
| Main Entry: | deed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legal paper assigning property; contract |
| Synonyms: | agreement, bargain, certificate, charter, compact, conveyance, covenant, document, indenture, instrument, lease, papers, proof, record, release, security, title, transaction, voucher, warranty |
| Main Entry: | delegation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assignment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | appointment, apportioning, authorization, charge, commissioning, committal, consigning, consignment, conveyance, conveying, deputation, deputization, deputizing, devolution, entrustment, giving over, installation, investiture, mandate, nomination, ordination, reference, referring, relegation, sending away, submittal, submitting, transferal, transference, transferring, trust |
| Notes: | a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
| Antonyms: | keeping |
| Main Entry: | delivery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transfer, transmittal |
| Synonyms: | carting, commitment, consignment, conveyance, dispatch, distribution, drop, freighting, giving over, handing over, impartment, intrusting, mailing, parcel post, portage, post, rendition, shipment, surrender, transmission |
| Antonyms: | hold, keeping, retention |
| Main Entry: | disposal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parting with or throwing something away |
| Synonyms: | auctioning, bartering, chucking, clearance, conveyance, demolishing, demolition, destroying, destruction, discarding, dispatching, dispensation, disposition, dumping, ejection, jettison, jettisoning, junking, relegation, relinquishment, removal, riddance, sacrifice, sale, scrapping, selling, trading, transfer, transference, vending |
| Antonyms: | hold, keeping, retention |
| Main Entry: | disposal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, settlement of situation |
| Synonyms: | action, allocation, arrangement, array, assignment, assortment, bequest, bestowal, consignment, control, conveyance, determination, dispensation, disposition, distribution, division, effectuation, end, gift, grouping, order, ordering, placing, position, provision, sequence, transfer, winding up |
| Antonyms: | beginning, start |
| Main Entry: | freight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goods being shipped |
| Synonyms: | bales, ballast, bulk, burden, carriage, consignment, contents, conveyance, encumbrance, fardel, haul, lading, load, merchandise, pack, packages, payload, shipment, shipping, tonnage, transportation, wares, weight |
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