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common carrier

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

How To Use common carrier In A Sentence

  • The goal of this abatement crew near Chicago is to prevent larvae from growing into adult mosquitoes, specifically the culex pipians, the common carrier of West Nile virus that infected more than 4,000 people in the U.S. last year. CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2003
  • Judge Graffeo raises a good point in regard to the difficulty that this holding presents in determining when a particular means of ingress and egress is "primarily" used to access a common carrier. Personal Injury
  • The label printer will produce all required labels for usps and other common carriers. Purchasing - Top Stories
  • In the United States today, common carrier and private trucking fleets transport about two-thirds of all freight tonnage and, thus, play a critical role in the economy.
  • The delivery and collection agent may be an employee of the seller, the post office, an express company, a trucking company, a railroad, a steamship company, or any other common carrier.
  • Where, as here, a stairwell or approach is primarily used as a means of access to and egress from the common carrier, that carrier has a duty to exercise reasonable care to see that such means of approach remain in a safe condition or, where appropriate, to take such precautions or give such warnings as would protect those using such area against unforeseen danger. Personal Injury
  • Cats are the most common carriers of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, especially outdoor cats that eat rats, mice, and other raw meat. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
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