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armoured car(US armored car) noun1A light military vehicle covered with armour plate: we were taken in an armoured car to a temporary army camp...- His riflemen would be reinforced by two armoured cars armed with machine-guns.
- The comparatively poor cross-country performance of armoured cars has always limited their usefulness.
- Without the European military patrolling in their box-like armoured cars, 'anything not nailed down would go', they say.
1.1A civilian car or truck reinforced with armour plate and bulletproof glass: he shunned the armoured cars favoured by diplomats and CIA agents...- The armoured car taking him from jail broke down on the North Circular Road.
- The bank had indicated that the large cash withdrawals without a guard or armoured car constituted a security risk.
- They were brought to court in an armoured car escorted by two dozen police vans mounted with machine guns.
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