"common carrier" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "common carriers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "common carrier (plural common carriers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Transport",
          "orig": "en:Transport",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 41:",
          "text": "Baldwin built the biggest by virtue of its rapport with the U.S. Steel roads. The largest of these properties is the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range. The Missabe is, to be sure, no granger; indeed DM&IR is only technically a common carrier.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 December, “Editorial: Führerprinzip for nationalised transport”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705:",
          "text": "Equally to be expected, in view of the trend of Government legislation and pronouncements over the past few years—but no less epoch-making for that—is the proposal that the railways and canals shall cease to be common carriers and be entirely free to fix their own passenger and freight charges, [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 56:",
          "text": "The railways were 'common carriers' - they had to move any load they were offered, even if it was uneconomic to do so. Road hauliers could pick and choose their loads.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a person or company that undertakes to transport goods for the general public or passengers on regular routes at agreed rates."
      ],
      "id": "en-common_carrier-en-noun-sUcniLvh",
      "links": [
        [
          "transport",
          "transport"
        ],
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "goods",
          "goods"
        ],
        [
          "general public",
          "general public"
        ],
        [
          "passengers",
          "passengers"
        ],
        [
          "regular",
          "regular"
        ],
        [
          "route",
          "route"
        ],
        [
          "rate",
          "rate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transport, rail transport) a person or company that undertakes to transport goods for the general public or passengers on regular routes at agreed rates."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Telecommunications",
          "orig": "en:Telecommunications",
          "parents": [
            "Communication",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a company providing public telecommunications facilities."
      ],
      "id": "en-common_carrier-en-noun-Y2alo6wC",
      "links": [
        [
          "telecommunications",
          "telecommunications"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, telecommunications) a company providing public telecommunications facilities."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "telecommunications"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "common carrier"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "common carriers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "common carrier (plural common carriers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rail transportation",
        "en:Transport"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 41:",
          "text": "Baldwin built the biggest by virtue of its rapport with the U.S. Steel roads. The largest of these properties is the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range. The Missabe is, to be sure, no granger; indeed DM&IR is only technically a common carrier.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 December, “Editorial: Führerprinzip for nationalised transport”, in Trains Illustrated, page 705:",
          "text": "Equally to be expected, in view of the trend of Government legislation and pronouncements over the past few years—but no less epoch-making for that—is the proposal that the railways and canals shall cease to be common carriers and be entirely free to fix their own passenger and freight charges, [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 August 25, Richard Foster, “The rise and fall of railway's Big Four...”, in RAIL, number 938, page 56:",
          "text": "The railways were 'common carriers' - they had to move any load they were offered, even if it was uneconomic to do so. Road hauliers could pick and choose their loads.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a person or company that undertakes to transport goods for the general public or passengers on regular routes at agreed rates."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transport",
          "transport"
        ],
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "goods",
          "goods"
        ],
        [
          "general public",
          "general public"
        ],
        [
          "passengers",
          "passengers"
        ],
        [
          "regular",
          "regular"
        ],
        [
          "route",
          "route"
        ],
        [
          "rate",
          "rate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transport, rail transport) a person or company that undertakes to transport goods for the general public or passengers on regular routes at agreed rates."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "en:Telecommunications"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a company providing public telecommunications facilities."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "telecommunications",
          "telecommunications"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, telecommunications) a company providing public telecommunications facilities."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "electrical-engineering",
        "engineering",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "telecommunications"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "common carrier"
}