common carrier

1. 1.

   a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

   Synonymscarrier

   Broaderbusiness

   Narrowerline

Questions about common carrier

What does common carrier mean?

common carrier means "a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages".

What is another word for common carrier?

Close synonyms include carrier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common carrier a common word?

common carrier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.