conveyance
Americannoun
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the act of conveying; transmission; communication.
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a means of transporting, especially a vehicle, as a bus, airplane, or automobile.
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Law.
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the transfer of property from one person to another.
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the instrument or document by which this is effected.
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noun
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the act of conveying
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a means of transport
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law
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a transfer of the legal title to property
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the document effecting such a transfer
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Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of conveyance
Explanation
Conveyance is a formal word that can mean either the transportation of something from one place to another, or the vehicle that does the transporting. Conveyance is a rather archaic — or old-fashioned — way to describe a mode of transportation. It's easy to imagine someone in the 1800s asking for a horse and carriage as their conveyance to a friend's house. Today, we'd skip the formalities and simply jump in the car and drive there ourselves. In its less common usage, a conveyance is a legal document that transfers ownership of a property from one person to another.
Vocabulary lists containing conveyance
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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The Dawes Act
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Example Sentences
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So were its transport systems: If this were happening two years ago, the agency likely would have managed the conveyance of Ebola samples from suspected outbreaks to Kinshasa, Congo’s capital, where they could be tested.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
At issue is whether Miami Dade College gave reasonable public notice of the meeting where its board of trustees voted on the land conveyance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
A $1.2-billion, 44-mile-long conveyance system called the Inland Feeder, completed in 2009, involved boring eight miles of tunnels through the San Bernardino Mountains and another 7.9-mile tunnel under the Badlands in Riverside County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
Standing at 6ft 1in tall, Patrick's height and weight of about 11st 7lb limit the rides he can take, but the rocket that is Nick Rockett proved the ideal conveyance.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
The only course which remained to us was to abandon our late conveyance and seek another.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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