personnel carrier

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   a military vehicle (usually armored) for transporting military personnel and their equipment

   Broadermilitary vehicleself-propelled vehicle

   military

Questions about personnel carrier

What does personnel carrier mean?

personnel carrier means "a military vehicle (usually armored) for transporting military personnel and their equipment".

Is personnel carrier a common word?

personnel 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.