I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
service
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Mercury prepares to expand at the double WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion.
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The courier service is provided free by Stanford.
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She picked up the telephone and asked for a courier service .
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This must be done today, not tomorrow when the courier service would deliver.
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No one there was the kind of person who would be offering a transport or courier service .
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Daily courier service was established between New York and Washington.
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This courier service could be most economically operated if both pollen and egg were placed close together on the plant.
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It operates the world's largest wholesale courier service , Speedbird Courier.
■ VERB
send
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He also showed the photo of Tweed you sent over with the courier who travelled here by night ferry.
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The assignment editor sends a courier to take a field producer to the scene and to return with tape to be edited.
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Unless sent by an air courier , an ocean bill of lading can take as long as a week to arrive by air mail.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A courier arrived with the documents just before the meeting.
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He said he'd be sending the report over by courier .
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The invitations were sent out by courier .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A courier brought me news, which was brief but favourable.
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A number of companies arrange courier flights.
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Agents said the women chosen as couriers mainly were in their 20s with middle-class appearances.
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Lichfield council got the demand to him via a friend of the family near Lagos and a courier .
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Payments to couriers for aircraft that were never used.
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The courier service is provided free by Stanford.
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The £1,000 worth of gifts were part of the loot taken in a raid on a courier depot at Leicester.
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Would not the courier also be stained by it?
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'll courier the contracts out to you this afternoon.