noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a relief convoy/flight
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A relief convoy of 10 trucks set off with food and medical supplies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
military
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A military convoy was moving towards Budapest.
■ NOUN
aid
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The statement followed assurances from country's warring factions that they would no longer block aid convoys or distribution.
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Gen Morillon was also negotiating with local commanders yesterday to try to get aid convoys moving again in eastern Bosnia.
food
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But it hopes its contribution will form part of an international force protecting food convoys .
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On July 16 Renamo and the government signed a joint humanitarian declaration designed to allow unrestricted passage for food convoys .
relief
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They were afraid of reprisal because the Arabs had just ambushed a relief convoy at Kubri.
■ VERB
carry
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Like the other parts of the convoy , the tractors carry steel plating for protection.
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The convoy carrying equipment from the docks stretched for 46 miles.
lead
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Five people helping lead a convoy of aid from Oxfordshire are missing feared dead.
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But DeLatorre, leading the convoy , made better time than he expected.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
supply ship/convoy/route etc
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An Axis supply convoy was now spotted by a Maryland, and on 7 May an attack was laid on.
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At other times, they waged an incessant guerrilla war, attacking isolated Roman garrisons, ambushing caravans, cutting supply routes.
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From the summit there is a view of the Roman supply route, Dere Street.
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Mr Mobutu had cut the supply route after a dispute with Mr Savimbi.
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None of the supply routes go close to the point where Sunderby's aircraft ditched.
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The bases and the well-traveled supply routes that kept them run-ning were as obvious as Nui Ba Den.
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This time Dennis claimed hits on a destroyer while Osborne inflicted damage on a supply ship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A 50-truck convoy was carrying food and medicine to the refugees.
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Submarines sank all but one of the ships in the convoy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dozens of officers descended when one convoy stopped in a lay-by.
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Lampard searched the darkness, trying to see where the convoy ended.
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Navy and merchant vessels, also using lamps, still use Morse signals in convoy while running under radio silence.
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Next day Dennis and Osborne participated in a further attack on another convoy .
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The Rentokil convoy of vehicles was a sight to behold.
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Voice over Police are already monitoring the movements of travellers convoys and the exclusion order will give them widespread powers of arrest.
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We had scarcely survived a convoy of high articulated lorries to reach the safety of a country lane.
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Whiteley, had sighted a convoy of five freighters escorted by three destroyers to the south-west of Pantelleria.