courier
noun/ˈkʊriə(r)/
/ˈkʊriər/
- a person or company whose job is to take packages or important papers somewhere
- We sent the documents by courier.
- I’ll send a courier with the blueprints.
- Urgent deliveries of medicine may be sent by motorcycle courier.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- drug
- motorbike
- motorcycle
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- act as
- send
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- (British English) a person who is employed by a travel company to give advice and help to a group of tourists on holidayTopics Holidaysc2, Jobsc2
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a person sent to run with a message): originally from Old French coreor; later from French courier (now courrier), from Italian corriere; based on Latin currere ‘to run’.
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