courier
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A courier is a person you trust with delivering important messages or packages. Let your mail carrier deliver your credit card bill and the form letter from the “Save the Orchids” foundation, but trust a courier with your book contract or birth certificate.
Couriers are in a hurry. Do they saunter up your driveway the way a mail carrier does? No! Couriers are clearly on important business; they’re jogging. The word comes from a Latin word, currere, meaning “to run.” Nowadays, you might see couriers on bicycles, however, weaving in and out of traffic to deliver your messages on time.
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a person who carries a message
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synonyms:
messenger
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types:
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conveyer, conveyor
a person who conveys (carries or transmits)
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dispatch rider
a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle)
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herald, trumpeter
(formal) a person who announces important news
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bearer
a messenger who bears or presents
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errand boy, messenger boy
a boy who earns money by running errands
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process-server
someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant
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runner
a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
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page, pageboy
a boy who is employed to run errands
/ˈkəriər/
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Vocabulary lists containing courier
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