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Definition of Carriers

1. carrier [n] - See also: carrier

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Carriers

carriages carriageway carriageways carriage bolt carriage dog carriage house carriage return carriage trade carriage wrench carrick bend

carrick bitt carried carrier carrier carrier-free carriers (current term) carrier bag carrier cell carrier electrophoresis carrier electrophoresis

carrier pigeon carrier protein carrier proteins carrier screening carrier state carrier strain carrier test carrier wave carries Carrington's disease

Literary usage of Carriers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"[419] The ninth section of that Act creates a commission to be known as the "Railroad and Ware- Act to Regulate Common carriers, and Creating the Railroad ..."

2. Hand-book of the Law of Torts by Edwin Ames Jaggard (1895)
"WHO ARE COMMON carriers. 293. A common carrier is one who is engaged in ... As carriers by land, the law recognizes, for example, express companies,5 stage ..."

3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William M. Lacy (1889)
"They are bound to indemnify, in cases in .which they are liable as common carriers, according to the value at the place where they may have contracted to ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1912)
"The first section makes the act apply alike to common carriers engaged in the ... It is conceded that the carriers filing the bills in these cases were ..."

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