Courier
noun
A person or company that carries and delivers letters, packages, or important documents quickly.
He works as a delivery courier for a local restaurant.
Often appears as...
- delivery courier
- courier service
noun
A representative of a travel company who helps tourists on their holiday.
The holiday courier gave us a guided tour of the city.
Often appears as...
- holiday courier
- tour courier
noun
A person or company that carries and delivers letters, packages, or important documents quickly.
He works as a delivery courier for a local restaurant.
Often appears as...
- delivery courier
- courier service
noun
A representative of a travel company who helps tourists on their holiday.
The holiday courier gave us a guided tour of the city.
Often appears as...
- holiday courier
- tour courier
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Emphasis
Focus on the fast delivery aspect that 'courier' implies versus regular mail services.
I sent the documents via a courier to ensure they arrived by tomorrow.
Pro Tip 2/3Package Handling
Remember, couriers often handle packages carefully, especially if they are fragile or valuable.
The courier carefully packed the antique vase for shipment.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Usage
Companies frequently use couriers for business, emphasizing reliability and efficiency.
Our firm always hires a reputable courier for contract deliveries.
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Emphasis
Focus on the fast delivery aspect that 'courier' implies versus regular mail services.
I sent the documents via a courier to ensure they arrived by tomorrow.
Pro Tip 2/3Package Handling
Remember, couriers often handle packages carefully, especially if they are fragile or valuable.
The courier carefully packed the antique vase for shipment.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Usage
Companies frequently use couriers for business, emphasizing reliability and efficiency.
Our firm always hires a reputable courier for contract deliveries.
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Emphasis
Focus on the fast delivery aspect that 'courier' implies versus regular mail services.
I sent the documents via a courier to ensure they arrived by tomorrow.
Pro Tip 2/3Package Handling
Remember, couriers often handle packages carefully, especially if they are fragile or valuable.
The courier carefully packed the antique vase for shipment.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Usage
Companies frequently use couriers for business, emphasizing reliability and efficiency.
Our firm always hires a reputable courier for contract deliveries.
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History vs. Augustus -...
Augustus’s accomplishments were almost too many to name. He established consistent taxation for all provinces, ending private exploitation by local tax officials. He personally financed a network of roads and employed couriers so news and troops could travel easily throughout the realm. And it was under Augustus
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Lucien Engelen:...
that whenever you're on holiday and somebody collapses, might it be your own relative or someone just in front of you, you can find this. The other thing we would like to ask is of companies also all over the world that will be able to help us validate these AEDs. These might be courier services
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How do vitamins work? -...
breaking up the fat and preparing it for absorption through the intestinal wall. Because fat-soluble vitamins can't make use of the blood's watery nature, they need something else to move them around, and that comes from proteins that attach to the vitamins and act like couriers,
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Crowdsource your health...
might admit your own relative or someone just in front of you you can find this the other thing we'd like to ask is companies also all of the world that will be able to help us validate these IEDs this might be courier services or cable guys for instance just to see
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Drew Berry: Animations...
And it's walked away -- I mean, it's that mechanical. It's molecular clockwork. This is how you work at the molecular scale. So with a little bit of molecular eye candy, we've got kinesins, the orange ones. They're little molecular courier molecules walking one way.
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You shouldn't have to...
SIRUM gets surplus medications by putting recycling bins into these hundreds of facilities that have surplus. They fill the bin, and when the box is full, SIRUM initiates a courier pickup to pick up that medication,
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Globalizing communication...
back to the map that we have seen earlier again and again and again let me tell you when I first started myself courier at HP my district manager I took a pay cut moved to Silicon Valley and my
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Jonathan Zittrain: The...
So what is this bizarre architecture configuration that makes the network sing and be so unusual? Well, to move data around from one place to another -- again, it's not like a package courier.
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Mountain Gorillas'...
think see them as US military so so many have half died in the line of duty being a truck owner in this park is actually risking your life for the lives of couriers and for the benefit of
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THE RAID ON OSAMA BIN...
we had a ghost detaining a known al-qaeda courier lead us to the suspected location of a high-value target
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History vs. Augustus -...
Augustus’s accomplishments were almost too many to name. He established consistent taxation for all provinces, ending private exploitation by local tax officials. He personally financed a network of roads and employed couriers so news and troops could travel easily throughout the realm. And it was under Augustus
Video examples
Lucien Engelen:...
that whenever you're on holiday and somebody collapses, might it be your own relative or someone just in front of you, you can find this. The other thing we would like to ask is of companies also all over the world that will be able to help us validate these AEDs. These might be courier services
Video examples
How do vitamins work? -...
breaking up the fat and preparing it for absorption through the intestinal wall. Because fat-soluble vitamins can't make use of the blood's watery nature, they need something else to move them around, and that comes from proteins that attach to the vitamins and act like couriers,
Video examples
Crowdsource your health...
might admit your own relative or someone just in front of you you can find this the other thing we'd like to ask is companies also all of the world that will be able to help us validate these IEDs this might be courier services or cable guys for instance just to see
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Drew Berry: Animations...
And it's walked away -- I mean, it's that mechanical. It's molecular clockwork. This is how you work at the molecular scale. So with a little bit of molecular eye candy, we've got kinesins, the orange ones. They're little molecular courier molecules walking one way.
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You shouldn't have to...
SIRUM gets surplus medications by putting recycling bins into these hundreds of facilities that have surplus. They fill the bin, and when the box is full, SIRUM initiates a courier pickup to pick up that medication,
Video examples
Globalizing communication...
back to the map that we have seen earlier again and again and again let me tell you when I first started myself courier at HP my district manager I took a pay cut moved to Silicon Valley and my
Video examples
Jonathan Zittrain: The...
So what is this bizarre architecture configuration that makes the network sing and be so unusual? Well, to move data around from one place to another -- again, it's not like a package courier.
Video examples
Mountain Gorillas'...
think see them as US military so so many have half died in the line of duty being a truck owner in this park is actually risking your life for the lives of couriers and for the benefit of
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THE RAID ON OSAMA BIN...
we had a ghost detaining a known al-qaeda courier lead us to the suspected location of a high-value target
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Adam Lashinsky
American Editor
Amazon is pursuing something called Amazon Key, which lets its couriers unlock Prime customers' doors and deliver packages. It's pairing the service, which it plans to make available in 37 cities next month, with a camera so users will have intelligence inside and outside their homes, presumably boosting trust and lowering creepiness.
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Jack Dorsey
American Businessman
I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.
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Stephenie Meyer
American Author
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.
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Shepard Fairey
American Artist
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step.
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Dan Hill
Canadian Musician
When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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Gary Numan
British Musician
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Michael McCaul
American Politician
The threat is real, and it comes from the Internet. This is a new generation of terrorist. This is not Bin Laden in caves with couriers anymore. This is what the new threat of terrorism looks like.
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Oliver North
American Soldier
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.
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Christopher Fowler
English Writer
I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency.
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Daniel Rigby
English Actor
My nana used to tape 'The Simpsons' when it aired on Sky. We'd get the VHS tapes - my dad would courier them from Nana's house to us - and we'd watch them on Sunday nights.
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Adam Lashinsky
American Editor
Amazon is pursuing something called Amazon Key, which lets its couriers unlock Prime customers' doors and deliver packages. It's pairing the service, which it plans to make available in 37 cities next month, with a camera so users will have intelligence inside and outside their homes, presumably boosting trust and lowering creepiness.
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Jack Dorsey
American Businessman
I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.
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Stephenie Meyer
American Author
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.
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Shepard Fairey
American Artist
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of step.
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Dan Hill
Canadian Musician
When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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Gary Numan
British Musician
Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Michael McCaul
American Politician
The threat is real, and it comes from the Internet. This is a new generation of terrorist. This is not Bin Laden in caves with couriers anymore. This is what the new threat of terrorism looks like.
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Oliver North
American Soldier
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.
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Christopher Fowler
English Writer
I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency.
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Daniel Rigby
English Actor
My nana used to tape 'The Simpsons' when it aired on Sky. We'd get the VHS tapes - my dad would courier them from Nana's house to us - and we'd watch them on Sunday nights.
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