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1. Someone whose employment involves carrying something
   "the bonds were transmitted by carrier";
   - bearer, toter
    
2. A self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something
   "refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business"
    
3. A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings
   - aircraft carrier, flattop [US, informal], attack aircraft carrier
    
4. 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
    
5. A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
   - common carrier
    
6. A radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal
   - carrier wave
    
7. A man who delivers the mail
   - mailman [N. Amer], postman, mail carrier [N. Amer], letter carrier [N. Amer], postie [Brit, informal]
    
8. A boy who delivers newspapers
   - newsboy
    
9. A rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage, skis or the like
    
10. (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
     
11. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others
    - immune carrier

Derived forms: carriers

Type of: being, business, business concern, business organisation [Brit], business organization, chemical, chemical substance, combat ship, concern, deliverer, delivery boy, deliveryman, immune, organism, rack, radio emission, radio radiation, radio wave, self-propelled vehicle, stand, transmitter, traveler [US], traveller [Brit, Cdn], vector, war vessel, warship

Encyclopedia: Carrier, Oklahoma