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View synonyms for common carrier

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.


common carrier

noun

  1. a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


common carrier

  1. 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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Other Words From

  • common-carri·er adjective
  • common carriage noun
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Example Sentences

Twitter is for all practical purposes a “common carrier,” providing its service to all comers.

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

They intend to make the lightning a domestic slave in every house, and to turn Ariel into a common carrier.

That's common-carrier while the Fair Grounds isn't running up there.

That's common carrier too, but with one terminal in Mob Territory.

We don't make any profit on common-carrier service, the rates are too low, but we owe it to the public that supports us.

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