carrier

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person or thing that carries or transports something.

   The mail carrier delivers our letters every morning.

2. 2
   noun

   A company that transports goods or passengers, such as an airline.

   The airline is the country's largest carrier.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who carries a disease or gene without showing its effects, and can pass it on.

   She is a healthy carrier of the gene but has no symptoms.

From Middle English cariere, partly from carien + -ere, after Anglo-Norman carier, cariour, and partly directly from Anglo-Norman. By surface analysis, carry + -er.

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