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common carrier

NOUN
transport or telecommunications company
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Oil trains would link from the proposed new Uinta Basin line to the common carrier network throughout the country, including through Colorado.

From Seattle Times Aug. 18, 2023

That if you want your voice heard, Twitter is really the only game in town, and so it has become a common carrier.

From Slate Sep. 27, 2022

That was the only thing Jeanine had consumed, and it was a common carrier of Cronobacter.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2022

We cannot stress this enough: No, an Ohio judge did not declare Google a common carrier this week.

From Washington Post May 26, 2022

By reason of its special connection with producers' monopolies does the function of the common carrier have much to do in deciding the question whether an economic revolution is or is not impending.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark



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