TRUCK


Meaning of TRUCK in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ trʌk ]

( trucks, trucking, trucked)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

A truck is a large vehicle that is used to transport goods by road. ( mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use lorry )

N-COUNT

2.

A truck is an open vehicle used for carrying goods on a railway. ( BRIT; in AM, use freight car )

They were loaded on the railway trucks to go to Liverpool.

N-COUNT : usu supp N

3.

When something or someone is trucked somewhere, they are driven there in a lorry. ( mainly AM )

The liquor was sold legally and trucked out of the state.

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed prep / adv

4.

If you say that you will have no truck with someone or something, you are refusing to be involved with them in any way.

He would have no truck with deceit...

PHRASE : V inflects , PHR n

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