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courier

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1. courier - Noun

2. courier - Verb

3. Courier - Proper noun

Meaning

A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.

An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. Jean Chrétien

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody. Oliver North

Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone." "His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. "That's how we're doing it," Raoul told him. "Deliberately. Tamora Pierce

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. Stephenie Meyer

Am a servant of Rama, Accredited to His Court, What for should I Be a Courier of man? Tulsidas

That's why I hate to take credit for the songs I've written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it's been done and I'm just a courier bringing it out into the world. Michael Jackson

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