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people carrier

British  

noun

  1. another name for multipurpose vehicle

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Insp Cherith Adair said: "A red-coloured lorry travelling towards Greyabbey had been involved in a collision with a silver Citroen Berlingo people carrier and a white Audi A3 car travelling in the direction of Newtownards."

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

Behind us, Springsteen had alighted from a people carrier.

From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2016

Farmer Henry Bett's tractor crushed a Fiat people carrier being driven by mother-of-two Rebecca Brown, 43, on a country road on 4 December 2013.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2015

Today Sterling is understood to have waited in a silver Mercedes people carrier on a street around the corner from the court and did not enter the building for the 10am case.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2013

Emyr Griffith, 66, Phyllis Hooper, 84, and teenagers Peter Briscome and Liam Govier, both 14, from Pontypridd, died when their Peugeot people carrier plunged into the reservoir on 20 April last year.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2012