conveyance
[kuh n-vey-uh ns]
- the act of conveying; transmission; communication.
- a means of transporting, especially a vehicle, as a bus, airplane, or automobile.
- Law.
- the transfer of property from one person to another.
- the instrument or document by which this is effected.
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Origin of conveyance
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Related Words for conveyance
transportation, car, transmission, transfer, machine, carriage, vehicle, communication, movement, transference, carryingExamples from the Web for conveyance
Contemporary Examples of conveyance
There was fraud in the inducement, fraud in the conveyance, and fraud in the ratings process.
Historical Examples of conveyance
All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.
The Old Apple Dealer (From "Mosses From An Old Manse")Nathaniel Hawthorne
How could we hoist ourselves to such a height with Marie's conveyance?
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Well, get some sort of conveyance that we can both sit in while you drive.
In a Steamer Chair and Other StoriesRobert Barr
By no act of conveyance would, or could, He make over His own Rest to them.
Pax VobiscumHenry Drummond
They alighted at the street corner, and dismissing their conveyance, walked to the house.
Barnaby RudgeCharles Dickens
conveyance
- the act of conveying
- a means of transport
- law
- a transfer of the legal title to property
- the document effecting such a transfer
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Word Origin and History for conveyance
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