Topic: carrier
Definition:

  • someone whose employment involves carrying something
  • "the bonds were transmitted by carrier" a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
  • "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business" a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal a man who delivers the mail a boy who delivers newspapers (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others a rack attached to a vehicle
  • for carrying luggage or skis or the like (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele
  • the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring

    Related tag cloud:

  • freight
  • trucking
  • logistics
  • transportation
  • air
  • heating
  • air conditioning
  • ac
  • cargo
  • cooling
  • shipping
  • hvac
  • transport
  • international
  • service
  • delivery
  • courier
  • shipment
  • express
  • truck
  • dispatch
  • Resources:

    Carrier Corp.
    Global contact and product information available online. Offering air conditioners and cleaners purchased online.
    http://www.carrier.com/

    Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
    Responsible for the issuance, administration, and enforcement safety regulations, hazardous materials regulations, as it pertains to the drug and alcohol testing requirements.
    http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/

    Carrier Transicold
    Provides refrigeration equipment for commercial vehicles. Includes new and retrofit installations.
    http://www.carrier.transicold.com