common carrier

American  

noun

1. Transportation. (in federal regulatory and other legal usage) a carrier offering its services at published rates to all persons for interstate transportation.

2. a public service or public utility company, as a telephone or telegraph company, engaged in the transmitting of messages for the public.

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common carrier British  

noun

1. a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers

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common carrier Cultural  

1. A company or individual providing public transportation on a regular basis in return for a fee that is uniformly charged to all users.

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Other Word Forms

• common carriage
  noun
• common-carrier
  adjective

Example Sentences

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common carrier

We cannot stress this enough: No, an Ohio judge did not declare Google a common carrier this week.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2022

He then ran through an extended analogy in which Verizon listened to every phone call and cut off any pro-LGBT conversation, ignoring interjections that Twitter simply isn’t a common carrier and the comparison doesn’t apply.

From The Verge ● May 13, 2022

These corporations “are not engaged in indiscriminate, neutral transmission of any and all users’ speech” like a common carrier.

From Slate ● May 12, 2022

Owen Turner, 50, is charged with gross negligence of a person in control of a train and gross negligence of a person having care of a common carrier, The Boston Globe reported Thursday.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021

Easy and inexpensive to build, simple to operate with but little training on the part of the aviator, it will be made the common carrier of all nations.

From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)