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TROOP CARRIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does troop carrier mean?
• TROOP CARRIER (noun)
The noun TROOP CARRIER has 1 sense:
1. any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops
Familiarity information: TROOP CARRIER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
troop carrier; troop transport
Hypernyms ("troop carrier" is a kind of...):
military vehicle (vehicle used by the armed forces)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "troop carrier"):
troopship (ship for transporting troops)
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