truck
- Top 3000
Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A large road vehicle with an engine, built to carry goods from one place to another.
A truck full of fresh vegetables pulled into the market at dawn.
Trucks are not allowed on this narrow bridge after dark.
He climbed into the truck and started the noisy engine.
Half the parcels were still sitting in the truck at midnight.
Common collocations: a delivery truck · a fire truck · a pickup truck · a truck driver · load a truck · travel by truck
Part of: Means of transport
Sense 2 · less common
- verb
- C1
To move goods somewhere in a large road vehicle.
Most of the fruit is trucked north in refrigerated containers.
They trucked the heavy equipment to the building site overnight.
Water had to be trucked in during the long drought.
Common collocations: be trucked in · truck goods across the country · truck something to a site
Part of: Means of transport