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cart off

British  

verb

  1. informal (tr, adverb) to carry or remove brusquely or by force

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cart off Idioms  
  1. Also, cart away. Transport or remove in an unceremonious way, as in The police carted them all off to jail, or We'll call the town to cart away this trash. This term owes its meaning to cart, a humble conveyance compared to a carriage. [Second half of 1800s]


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Tractors zoom around, fallen nuts are collected, and trucks cart off the bins of almonds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

An initial proposal, allegedly floated by Saudi Arabia and UAE, was to empty the Safer, cart off its oil and have the decrepit ship decommissioned in Bahrain.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

It’s hard to imagine an ethical equation wherein one company’s drive to become even more profitable justifies letting random developers cart off their customers’ data without much in place to protect them from misuse.

From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2018

Catadores cart off unwanted non-recyclables like sofas and televisions as well.

From Economist ● Sep. 28, 2017

The business with Pita took all of my attention, but I did notice that the donkey had pulled the cart off the trail and stopped.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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