courier
a messenger, usually traveling in haste, bearing urgent news, important reports or packages, diplomatic messages, etc.
any means of carrying news, messages, etc., regularly.
the conveyance used by a courier, as an airplane or ship.
Chiefly British. a tour guide for a travel agency.
Origin of courier
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How to use courier in a sentence
The group has also used couriers to convey some messages in order to avoid digital communications altogether.
ISIS Keeps Getting Better at Dodging U.S. Spies | Shane Harris, Noah Shachtman | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe says members are not allowed to recruit children as drug couriers or employ women who are not affiliated with the gang.
How the Aryan Brotherhood Kills: From the Gang Signs to the Sanctioned Hits | Christine Pelisek | April 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFellow Pakistanis, including some who had also grown up in Kuwait, became his trusted lieutenants and couriers.
Bin Laden May Have Moved Freely Through Pakistan | Terry McDermott | April 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut he still needed a way to get his messages out, and for that he relied on a handful of trusted couriers.
Osama bin Laden's Courier: The Man Who Led the U.S. to bin Laden | Josh Dzieza | May 3, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTUntil recently, books were delivered by couriers who also collected payment.
In the Roman Empire, couriers on swift horses carried the imperial edicts to every province.
It was long since couriers bearing orders big with the fate of kings and commonwealths had ridden forth from those gloomy portals.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayMeade was sitting on a great flat boulder, (p. 299) listening to the reports of his officers, brought in by couriers.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.Couriers dashed into Washington from Rockville, only twelve miles distant, crying that the Rebels were advancing upon the capital.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.Michael Strogoff belonged to the special corps of the Czar's couriers, ranking as an officer among those picked men.
Michael Strogoff | Jules Verne
British Dictionary definitions for courier
/ (ˈkʊərɪə) /
a special messenger, esp one carrying diplomatic correspondence
a person who makes arrangements for or accompanies a group of travellers on a journey or tour
(tr) to send (a parcel, letter, etc) by courier
Origin of courier
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