"haulier" meaning in English

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          "text": "DB Cargo is the haulier for the Immingham-Drax flow. Its trains comprise purpose-built covered hoppers that can run at 60mph loaded and 75mph empty.",
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          "ref": "2024 January 5, Jon Henley, “Why is Germany’s economy struggling – and can the government fix it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Hauliers are up in arms over higher tolls, while some doctors – including, from 9 January, specialists – could decide to close surgeries in support of the medical profession’s demands for more state support for an overloaded system.",
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        "A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft."
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        "(mining) A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft."
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      "ipa": "/ˈhɔːliə(ɹ)/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɔːliə(ɹ)"
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        },
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        "(mining) A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft."
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