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n.A carrier who transports people or goods by contract and only in particular cases.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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carrier — car·ri·er n 1: an individual or entity engaged in transporting passengers or goods for hire by land, water, or air; specif: common carrier 2: an insurer that assumes the risks of a policy that it issues to a policyholder Merriam Webster’s… … Law dictionary
carrier — car‧ri‧er [ˈkæriə ǁ ər] noun [countable] TRANSPORT ORGANIZATIONS a person or company whose job is to transport goods from one place to another: • national carriers like Pickfords, with their own warehouses and regular clientele • the American… … Financial and business terms
private carrier — ➔ carrier * * * private carrier UK US noun [C] ► TRANSPORT a company that uses its vehicles or aircraft to transport only its own goods, and not the goods of other companies → Compare COMMON CARRIER(Cf. ↑common carrier) … Financial and business terms
private — pri·vate adj 1 a: intended for or restricted to the use of a particular person or group or class of persons: not available to the public a private park b: not related to, controlled by, or deriving from the state a private school 2 a: owned by or … Law dictionary
carrier — Individual or organization engaged in transporting passengers or goods for hire. Carrier means any person engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by land, as a common, contract, or private carrier, or freight forwarder as those… … Black's law dictionary
carrier — Individual or organization engaged in transporting passengers or goods for hire. Carrier means any person engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by land, as a common, contract, or private carrier, or freight forwarder as those… … Black's law dictionary
private — Affecting or belonging to private individuals, as distinct from the public generally. Not official; not clothed with office. People v. Powell, 280 Mich. 699, 274 N.W. 372, 373. As to private act private agent private bill private boundary private … Black's law dictionary
private carrier — a carrier who operates under a particular contract in each case and who may choose whether to accept or reject any request to carry. In the absence of a special term in the contract, a private carrier probably has no lien over the goods of a… … Law dictionary
Carrier-grade NAT — Carrier Grade NAT. Carrier grade NAT (CGN), also known as large scale NAT (LSN), is an approach to IPv4 network design in which end sites, in particular residential networks, are configured with private network addresses that are translated to… … Wikipedia
Carrier Ethernet — Carrier Ethernet: the extensions to Ethernet necessary to enable telecommunications network providers ( common carriers in US industry jargon) to provide Ethernet services to customers and to utilise Ethernet technology in their… … Wikipedia
