- a group of vehicles or ships travelling together, especially when soldiers or other vehicles travel with them for protection
- a convoy of trucks/lorries/freighters
- A United Nations aid convoy loaded with food and medicine finally got through to the besieged town.
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by waterc2- a large convoy of lorries carrying medical supplies
- the next aid convoy to the war-torn region
- the proposal to send 500 armed soldiers to escort food convoys
- I overtook a convoy of trucks.
- Journalists travelled with the convoy.
- One ship in the convoy struck an iceberg.
- Rebels blocked the passage of a military convoy.
- The UN aid convoy finally got through with supplies of food.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- armed
- army
- military
- …
- lead
- escort
- protect
- …
- carry something
- arrive
- move
- …
- in convoy
- convoy of
- convoy to
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (originally Scots, as a verb in the senses ‘convey’, ‘conduct’, and ‘act as escort’): from French convoyer, from medieval Latin conviare, from con- ‘together’ + Latin via ‘way’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See convoy in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryin convoy
- (of travelling vehicles) as a group; together
- We drove in convoy because I didn't know the route.
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by waterc2- They drove in convoy in case one of the cars broke down.
- The trucks were driving in convoy.
- The ships sailed in convoy.
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