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conveyance

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1. conveyance - Noun

2. conveyance - Verb

Meaning

The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.

The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water.

The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.

The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another.

Dishonest management, or artifice.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. Iris Murdoch

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. Iris Murdoch

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach. Anita Loos

The oldest and best known function for an ether is the conveyance of light, and hence the name "luminiferous" was applied to it, though at the present day many functions are known, and more will almost certainly be discovered. Oliver Lodge

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place. Francis Bacon

Besides a sign stuck to the windscreen identifying their vehicles as an MOH conveyance service, there is nothing else to distinguish them from other taxis on the roads. Source: Internet

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