transporter

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a long truck for carrying motor vehicles
noun a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships
noun a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)

From transport + -er.

"Why?" briefly demanded the organizer of the Junior Red Cross and the transporter of babies in soup tureens. — Rilla of Ingleside, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
The “transporter,” who bore the cost of shipping them to America, was rewarded for his outlay by having the use of them as slaves for seven years. — Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland), George Birkbeck Norman Hill
[73] “Blessé grièvement à la jambe, à la suite d’un accident de cheval, et quittant le siège de la Flèche pour se faire transporter par eau à Angers.” Halphen, Anjou, p. 311, no. — Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, Charles W. (Charles Wendell) David

car transporter

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