noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a carrier bag (= for carrying shopping, usually made of plastic )
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The supermarket no longer gives free carrier bags.
aircraft carrier
carrier bag
carrier pigeon
mail carrier
people carrier
personnel carrier
troop carrier
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armoured
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I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius.
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Near the residential apartments he had seen an exploded armoured carrier , and more dead soldiers.
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He was handcuffed to another prisoner and placed in an army, armoured personnel carrier .
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Since the civil disobedience began, the palace had also been surrounded by armoured carriers and remote crowd-control vehicles.
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His car was mud-splattered, parked amongst the jeeps and armoured personnel carriers , a hundred yards from the helicopter pad.
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The army also lost 2,000 of its 2,900 armoured personnel carriers .
big
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Alameda can accommodate three big nuclear-powered aircraft carriers , against just one in Everett.
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And another bankruptcy, involving Braniff Airlines, reminded everyone of the stranglehold the Big Eight carriers have over the domestic market.
international
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The network will give access to both national and international carriers .
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Indosat, the international phone carrier , rose 425 rupiah to 8975 with trading of 788, 500 shares.
large
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The chief need of large shippers and carriers is' to process information for the flow of goods.
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Verio acquired NorthWestNet in March 1997 and has since built one of the country's largest business Internet carriers .
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She waved, but Dawn didn't see her, being too engrossed in stuffing the flowers into a large carrier bag.
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Even a large carrier , he warned, could be quickly and effectively disabled by a few bomb hits.
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There's also a new large people-carrier derivative called the Vaneo.
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Near where he was standing, some one had left a large carrier bag full of clothes.
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The company will be the largest freight carrier to be based at the Speke airport.
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That change should occur within about three years for large carriers , while small companies will be free of rate regulation immediately.
local
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Communication with Hull was maintained by horse-drawn vehicles, daily local carriers taking anything and everything needed by the villagers.
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All told, I counted about 200 catalogs that my overburdened mail carrier had to tote and deliver during the Christmas season.
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But be assured, most people carry more writing-related baggage than a mail carrier does letters.
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When she finds the right neighborhood, she interviews neighbors and mail carriers to verify the addresses.
major
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A total of 84 airlines have now responded, including many of the major carriers .
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In 1995, the major carriers rebounded from years of losses by cutting costs and boosting fares.
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Photography was a major carrier and shaper of modernism.
national
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The network will give access to both national and international carriers .
regional
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Comair, a Cincinnati-based regional air carrier , was the top gainer in the index.
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That could go a long way toward offsetting public perception that regional carriers are less safe.
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Comair, a regional carrier in the Midwest and Florida, said the plane was Flight 3272.
small
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Growing competition sent smaller carriers , many of them start-ups after deregulation, to the wall.
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Becky, holding a small carrier bag from a music shop, came in.
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It is also warning more cuts could come if the economy deteriorates further. Small startup carriers are also finding business challenging.
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After all, how can you square downsizing with acquiring a smaller carrier with a similar cost base?
■ NOUN
air
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As do their land and sea counterparts, air carriers delegate the power to issue waybills to various types of agents.
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Comair, a Cincinnati-based regional air carrier , was the top gainer in the index.
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The air carrier had returned him as quickly as possible.
aircraft
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As I came up out of the trough, the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier .
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The Navy gave them rides on an aircraft carrier .
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In the 1960s, the Soviet Union built the Sovetskaya Rossiya, a whaler the size of an aircraft carrier .
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This room was gigantic: like the hangar deck of an aircraft carrier .
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Consider a film clip showing an aircraft carrier at sea.
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He flew to Hatfield and touched-down successfully balancing the elevator against the very powerful airbrakes, as previously used on aircraft carriers .
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In that post he achieved a military first, using an aircraft carrier to transport Army helicopters and Special Forces troops.
bag
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You will leave it in a carrier bag at a certain place and time.
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Near where he was standing, some one had left a large carrier bag full of clothes.
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Left: The Diamond kite, using decoration from a plastic carrier bag .
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What were they doing in a carrier bag ?
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It attracted everyone from stunt flying professionals to kids with an old plastic carrier bag and a piece of string.
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George frowned as he put his mask neatly in the brown carrier bag before driving home.
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Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel.
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So after finding the hairs they looked at the carrier bag more closely?
flag
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He opposed the privatisations, yet they are now the two greatest flag carriers in the Northern Ireland economy.
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With time he began to settle and his school work improved: Yoash became an ardent flag carrier for Habonim.
group
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In Lingayen Gulf in 1944, their carrier groups had fought next to each other, and that had cemented it.
insurance
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Stein and the other owners still wait for a damage settlement from their insurance carrier , State Farm Insurance Co.
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But if she can not afford a potential loss, she should get coverage from an insurance carrier .
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Morrill agreed to a $ 12 million settlement in the Western case, most of which was paid by its insurance carrier .
personnel
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I stumbled off to be sick behind an armoured personnel carrier as he started on Marius.
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A day after the meeting, 20 tanks and 15 armored personnel carriers were sent through the streets of Sincan.
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There were three malai personnel carriers in the centre of the Praça and a company of troops at one end.
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The tracks are 28-ton personnel carriers that can carry two dozen Marines, including the three-man crew.
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His car was mud-splattered, parked amongst the jeeps and armoured personnel carriers , a hundred yards from the helicopter pad.
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About 200 yards from his mansion, in an old barn, he even kept an armored personnel carrier .
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Slowed by heavy rains, the convoy was shielded by helicopter gunships and armoured personnel carriers .
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Later it wants to follow up with the heavy stuff: tanks, helicopters, anti-tank weapons and armored personnel carriers .
pigeon
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The first correct entry to be drawn at random will be notified by phone and the Guitarist carrier pigeon will do the rest.
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They found the empty dovecotes where he kept his carrier pigeons , his way of beating the phone taps.
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During the war, peregrines were declared a pest because they used to attack carrier pigeons and prevent messages reaching their destination.
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The tower provided shore accommodation for keepers and kept in communication with the lighthouse by means of flagstaff signals and carrier pigeons .
plastic
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Left: The Diamond kite, using decoration from a plastic carrier bag.
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It attracted everyone from stunt flying professionals to kids with an old plastic carrier bag and a piece of string.
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She parked the car and hoisted the plastic carriers from the boot, perching the flat, be-ribboned pâtisserie box on top.
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After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it.
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The four sample bottles of water stood in their plastic carrier on my roomette floor.
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To waste them cleaning out a drawer of plastic carrier bags instead of scrambling up lofty pinnacles is something you may regret.
troop
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A couple worked on the engine of a troop carrier .
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A single Marine Corps troop carrier costs more than one billion.
■ VERB
armored
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Three men died in a skirmish with armored personnel carriers .
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A day after the meeting, 20 tanks and 15 armored personnel carriers were sent through the streets of Sincan.
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The maneuvers came after days of ominous-looking deployments around the residence by police helicopters, armored personnel carriers and commandos.
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About 200 yards from his mansion, in an old barn, he even kept an armored personnel carrier .
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Their protection consisted of three heavily armored tanks and an armored personnel carrier .
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Beyond them a phalanx of armored personnel carriers was lined up three abreast, their heavy guns pointed toward our bank.
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Later it wants to follow up with the heavy stuff: tanks, helicopters, anti-tank weapons and armored personnel carriers .
send
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The kite can be sent up with a carrier attached.
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Alternatively, instruments can be sent and returned by carrier if you live too far away to visit personally.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a carrier with routes to the eastern U.S.
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a newspaper carrier
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We give a gift to the letter carrier at Christmas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Carrie had Nick's case as well as her own and a carrier bag with a broken string handle.
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Fuchida ordered his remaining 324 aircraft back to the waiting carriers but stayed as long as he could over the target.
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So the last hope of hitting the enemy carriers was reluctantly abandoned.
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Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers.