tractor trailer

Questions about tractor trailer

What does tractor trailer mean?

tractor trailer means "a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together".

What is another word for tractor trailer?

Close synonyms include trailer truck, trucking rig, rig, articulated lorry, semi. 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 tractor trailer a common word?

tractor trailer 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.