Thesaurus results for COURIER

courier

noun

ˈku̇r-ē-ər

Definition of courier

as in smuggler

a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally under wartime rationing, the only way to obtain some foods was from a courier

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as in messenger

one that carries a message or does an errand a courier just delivered a package for you

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Recent Examples of courier Unlike a human courier, a robot doesn't collect tips or earn money for each delivery. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026 First, as medical courier Bryan Hodukavich in Resident Evil, he was forced to contend with an onslaught of mutant zombie monsters. — Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026 Multiple people came up and robbed the courier, the town said. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Detectives seized the home’s surveillance system, which showed a man named Jiajia Fan assigning customers to the women, collecting payment and turning over the money to a courier, Pinner wrote. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for courier

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Noun

Employees have become burned out and morally conflicted as their focus has shifted from pursuing drug smugglers and human traffickers to apprehending asylum seekers in courthouses and arresting day laborers at their worksites.

— Francisco Cantú, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
The front-running suspect in that alt theory is now Joey Ippolito, a former drug smuggler and friend of Simpson’s.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of smuggler

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To the Indigenous CHamoru people of the Mariana Islands, the bird is known as the Åga, an ancestral messenger who alerts the community of impending illness or weather disaster.

— Rachel Ramirez, Vox, 12 Nov. 2026
The war was over and Brown suddenly became a messenger of peace.

— William Lambers, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2026