transporter

[trans-pawr-ter, -pohr-, trans-pawr-ter, -pohr-]

noun

1. a person or thing that transports, especially a very large truck for large or heavy loads, as missiles or automobiles.

Word History and Origins

Origin of transporter¹

1525–35; transport ( def. ) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

But industrials—which include equipment and parts manufacturers for all sorts of new projects, infrastructure service providers, transporters, and airlines—are showing they’re still in the midst of telling their growth stories.

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In one tweet, she shared a film of a vehicle transporter ablaze and stacked with cars shot at Mooi Plaza, a tollgate near one of the towns in KwaZulu-Natal hardest hit by the violence.

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They then raised the church 4 feet off the ground, supported by steel beams, and put it on giant remote-controlled transporters with 56 axles.

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Emergency services said a car transporter carrying nine electric vehicles had caught fire on the southbound carriageway.

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"This route has tolls, includes a car transporter train, crosses through France and ends in a different time zone."

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