troop carrier

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   any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops

   Synonymstroop transport

   Broadermilitary vehicle

   Narrowertroopship

   military

Questions about troop carrier

What does troop carrier mean?

troop carrier means "any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops".

What is another word for troop carrier?

Close synonyms include troop transport. 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 troop carrier a common word?

troop 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.