common carrier meaning

• Noun: common carrier  'kómun 'kareeu(r)
  1. A person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
     - carrier

  Derived forms: common carriers

  Type of: business, business concern, business organisation [Brit], business organization, concern

  Encyclopedia: Common carrier

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  [Business]
  noun [C]

  1 (IT )

  a company that provides telecommunications services to the public:

  the common carrier network

  2 (Law ; Transport )

  a company that transports people or goods for the general public:

  A common carrier may remove a passenger from its service for the refusal to pay a fare.

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  [Industrial engineering]
  A company recognized by an appropriate regulatory agency as having a vested interest in furnishing communications services or in transporting commodities or people.
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  [Law]
  See CARRIER.

[Computer]
<communications, company> (Or "phone company") A private company that offers telecommunications services to the public.

• common communications carrier:    [Electronics]A com ...
• communications common carrier:    [Electronics]An or ...
• carrier:    Noun: carrier  ...

Examples

1. nvocc non-vessel operations common carrier
2. introduces innovative " common carrier " service ( los angeles)
3. introduces innovative " common carrier " service los angeles
4. nvocc non-vessel operations common carrier
5. as one of the world s leading non-vessel operating common carriers nvocc,