Definition of transporter
:one that transports;
especially
:a vehicle for transporting large or heavy loads
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Transporters to push wheelchair bound patients to appointments within the building are also needed.
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Instead of changing metabolism, grapefruit juice can affect proteins in the body known as drug transporters, which help move a drug into our cells for absorption.
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At the time, state law banned liquor store owners from carrying alcohol across county lines without a transporter’s license, a law designed to curtail bootlegging.
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Without proteins—which act as messengers, structural supports, transporters, storage and more—the cell dies.
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These people were helpless in the hands of their transporters.
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Norfolk is a major transporter of coal, automotive and industrial products.
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EAL details a web of traffickers, transporters, wholesale dealers, and traders that shows—by its very complexity—why stopping the trade is so difficult.
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If the other pairings are Green with Niklas Kronwall and Jensen with Jonathan Ericsson, that would give the Wings three pairings each with a puck transporter/outlet passer in Daley, Green and Jensen.
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