a messenger, usually traveling in haste, bearing urgent news, important reports or packages, diplomatic messages, etc.
any means of carrying news, messages, etc., regularly.
the conveyance used by a courier, as an airplane or ship.
Chiefly British. a tour guide for a travel agency.
Origin of courier
1350–1400; <Middle French cour(r)ier<Italian corriere, equivalent to corr(ere) to run (<Latin currere) + -iere<Latin -ārius-ary; replacing Middle English corour<Anglo-French cor(i)our,Old French coreor<Late Latin curritor runner; see current, -tor
His LinkedIn profile says he now lives in Philadelphia driving as a courier.
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It set up “pods” of about 50 families and buildings across the city, matching them with couriers who could address their needs more directly, which helps form community bonds.
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From February to July, the number of people working as “couriers and messengers” jumped from less than 850,000 to almost 920,000, an increase of over 8%.
Covid-19 has more Americans working in delivery jobs than at gas stations|Dan Kopf|August 18, 2020|Quartz
“Masters had connections with survivalists,” Grants Pass Daily Courier (PDF) reporter Edith Decker wrote in 2010.
The Godfather of Right-Wing Radio|Caitlin Dickson|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For this, the courier can expect one to three years of prison time for the felony of “promoting prison contraband.”
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Looch is the editor-publisher of an internationally respected lefty newspaper called the Russian Courier.
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On Sunday, April 21, a full-page ad in The Post and Courier ran under the headline, “A Personal Message from Mark Sanford.”
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The courier then leads the CIA agents to a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Maya believes bin Laden is shacked up.
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Doesn’t Promote Torture|Marlow Stern|December 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
There the courier whirled the stern of the canoe into his grasp, and, unhurt, Dunvegan raised himself over it.
The Law of the North (Originally published as Empery)|Samuel Alexander White
A courier had been sent to recall Pappenheim, as the army without his force counted only 18,000 men.
Sweden|Victor Nilsson
I was just sending a courier to his command with a dispatch.
Robert Toombs|Pleasant A. Stovall
On the morning, when the courier brought the truth to Memel, Marianne was writing a letter to her friend Brentano.
Two Royal Foes|Eva Madden
From the North, by wire and courier, I received early intelligence of passing events.
Destruction and Reconstruction:|Richard Taylor
British Dictionary definitions for courier
courier
/ (ˈkʊərɪə) /
noun
a special messenger, esp one carrying diplomatic correspondence
a person who makes arrangements for or accompanies a group of travellers on a journey or tour
verb
(tr)to send (a parcel, letter, etc) by courier
Word Origin for courier
C16: from Old French courrier, from Old Latin corriere, from correre to run, from Latin currere