common carrier
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common carrier
noun
1.
Transportation. (in federal regulatory and other legal usage) a carrier offering its services at published rates to all persons for interstate transportation.
2.
a public service or public utility company, as a telephone or telegraph company, engaged in the transmitting of messages for the public.
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| common carrier | |
| —n | |
| a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers | |
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Common carrier
is always a great word to know.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Cultural Dictionary
common carrier definition
A company or individual providing public transportation on a regular basis in return for a fee that is uniformly charged to all users.
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common carrier definition
communications, company(Or "phone company") A private company that offers telecommunications services to the public.
(1995-03-20)
Example sentences
The liability of a telegraph company is quite unlike that of a common carrier.
The common carrier industry can use this information to develop solutions to industry problems identified in consumer complaints.
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