carriers
USKA-ree-erz/ˈkæɹ.i.ɚz/UK · AUSKA-ri-uhz/ˈkæɹ.ɪ.əz/
- 1Plural of carrier.
Freight rates rose sharply as carriers struggled to find enough trucks and drivers.
Two carriers and their escort ships steamed into the gulf at dawn.
Note
The regular plural covers every kind of carrier, and several of those are clipped from longer names: aircraft carriers in a naval story, carrier pigeons, and in British English the carrier bags handed out at shops. Freight writing uses it for the shipping companies themselves. With so many meanings, the neighboring words do the sorting: carriers steam, fly, ship goods or hang from the hand.
carriers is a form of carrier
carrier, noun: Someone or something that carries another person or thing. Full entry
- Forms
- carriercarriers plural
- Spelling
- carrier → carriers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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