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messenger

[ mes-uhn-jer ]

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noun

a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially as a matter of duty or business.
Synonyms: courier, bearer
a person employed to convey official dispatches or to go on other official or special errands:
a bank messenger.
Nautical.
1. a rope or chain made into an endless belt to pull on an anchor cable or to drive machinery from some power source, as a capstan or winch.
2. a light line by which a heavier line, as a hawser, can be pulled across a gap between a ship and a pier, a buoy, another ship, etc.
Oceanography. a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument.
Archaic. a herald, forerunner, or harbinger.

messenger

/ ˈmɛsɪndʒə /

a person who takes messages from one person or group to another or others
a person who runs errands or is employed to run errands
a carrier of official dispatches; courier
nautical
1. a light line used to haul in a heavy rope
2. an endless belt of chain, rope, or cable, used on a powered winch to take off power
archaic.
a herald

1175–1225; Middle English messager, messangere < Anglo-French; Old French messagier. See message, -er ²

C13: from Old French messagier, from message

Even an imperfect messenger is capable of delivering news everyone needs to hear.

As important as the messenger is here, the message—jobs—is even more so.

I hate to use “passion project,” but Kill the Messenger does seem like just that for you.

In between the blockbusters, the 43-year-old managed to slip in Kill the Messenger.

There had already been a documentary on the case that aimed to do just that, as if killing the messenger would mute the message.

The voice is the most potent influence of expression, the winged messenger between soul and soul.

It occurs commonly enough in the Royal Wardrobe Accounts, and means simply "a messenger."

When the three were at last alone, she paused before opening the letter and turned again to the messenger.

He did not have to wait very long until a man in the garb of a telegraph messenger came up the street.

The messenger looked both ways and finally turned up that sidewalk between the two tenements.

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