Definition of conveyancenext
as in vehicle
something used to carry goods or passengers the covered wagon was the major conveyance that transported settlers and their belongings across the frontier

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Recent Examples of conveyance The construction of the Stones of Stenness may have required around fifty thousand hours of labor, as slabs were extracted from quarries several miles away, transported by wooden sleds or some other conveyance, and hauled upright. Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025 Walshe pleaded guilty to counts two and three of his three-count indictment, admitting to misleading police officers and unlawful conveyance of a human body. Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025 Following a dispute with a moving truck driver, he was charged with burglary with assault, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and criminal mischief. Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025 The prototype machine showed remarkable speed, deploying up to 25,000 feet of fiber in little over an hour, which is around 10 times quicker than the average of 35 feet per minute for traditional tractor conveyance methods. Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for conveyance
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Noun
  • Police added that Lattimore was arrested for not telling the officer there was a gun inside the vehicle when asked.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Police located a vehicle description and license plate associated with him from a previous call for service.
    Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The White Stadium project is moving forward without a comprehensive assessment of its environmental, transportation, and economic impacts — an absence that is not procedural but consequential.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Even its parking garage advances the mission, offering EV charging stations to cut transportation emissions.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026

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“Conveyance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conveyance. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.

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