Concept cluster: Activities > Carrying or Moving Objects
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(transitive) To transport (something) by advection.
n
A device that stops or prevents, such as a railway buffer, or a spark arrester that prevents sparks from being released to start fires.
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To take and move to a certain other place, to carry away.
n
(law enforcement) reinforcements
adj
carried, supported.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To carry.
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Obsolete spelling of carry [(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.]
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(transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.
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(figuratively) To transfer.
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(chiefly US, idiomatic) To work diligently; to serve as the principal performer of a demanding task or set of tasks.
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(figuratively, with "of") To hold a specific role or position, along with any associated responsibilities.
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(transitive) To trace back.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To perform menial tasks for; to serve; to assist; to be forced by politics or pragmatism to endorse or promote a belief, individual, or organization that in reality one does not fully support.
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(usually attributive) A location or program for which participants bring something, such appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering (a carry-in shop or a carry-in party).
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To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
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(archaic) Something which carries or conveys anything; a channel; an instrument; a conduit.
v
(dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
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To carry; to convey.
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Alternative form of dispatcher [In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.]
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A method of employing people in remote areas by driving them temporarily to the work site instead of permanently relocating them.
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(transitive) To carry away.
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(US, law enforcement) A traffic stop of a person deemed dangerous performed from a distance by shouting instructions with weapons drawn.
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(transitive, dated) To carry or convey (gossip, news, etc.) from one person to another; to bear (tales).
n
(figuratively) A person who serves in an overly obedient or subservient manner.
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(insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
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Alternative form of handcarry [To transport and deliver in person.]
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Alternative form of handcarry [To transport and deliver in person.]
n
Alternative spelling of handover [The transference of authority, control, power or knowledge from one agency to another, or from one state to another.]
adj
Designed to be carried by hand; portable.
v
To transport and deliver in person.
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Alternative form of happy dispatch [(humorous) The act of hara-kiri.]
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(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A method of retail purchase in which the selected goods are set aside and the customer pays for them in instalments, receiving them when fully paid; layaway.
n
Someone who or something that moves.
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(transitive, aviation, travel) to change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not).
adj
Bringing on; transportive.
n
(logistics) An outbound shipment.
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(by extension) a situation in which the ownership of something changes frequently.
n
(figuratively) Something which enables someone to do or achieve something.
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(transitive, intransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
n
(US) The stopping by police of a motor vehicle in the case of a minor infringement of the law, in order to investigate other suspected criminal activity.
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(chiefly Japanese fiction) To carry another person in a bridal carry.
n
The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
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(slang) Pronunciation spelling of store. [A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.]
adj
Synonym of stop-and-search
n
Alternative form of stop-loss [(US, military, uncountable) A requirement for soldiers to remain in service beyond their normal discharge date.]
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(UK) Salary deductions.
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bearing, carriage, deportment
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(rare) A connected passage; conduit or channel.
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(rare, transitive) To walk through or across; to step over, especially to transit a threshold between one area and another.
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(sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
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The act of passing over, across, or through something.
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(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
n
The state of being transported, i.e. carried away or entranced.
adv
So as to transport, to carry away emotionally.
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(Britain, colloquial) To transfer (an employee or group of employees) to another employer under TUPE regulations.
n
The act of putting out to pasture.

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