transcription, транскрипция: [ kæriə(r) ]
( carriers)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A carrier is a vehicle that is used for carrying people, especially soldiers, or things.
There were armoured personnel carriers and tanks on the streets...
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see also aircraft carrier
2.
A carrier is a passenger airline.
Switzerland’s national carrier, Swissair, has been having a hard time recently.
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3.
A carrier is a person or an animal that is infected with a disease and so can make other people or animals ill.
...an AIDS carrier.
...carriers of disease such as mosquitoes and worms.
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