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Definition of courier noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

courier

noun
 
/ˈkʊriə(r)/
 
/ˈkʊriər/
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  1. 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.
    Topics Transport by car or lorryc1, Jobsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • drug
    • motorbike
    • motorcycle
    verb + courier
    • act as
    • send
    • use
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  2. (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
  3. 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’.
See courier in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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