to carry
- verb
- /ˈkæri/
- The internship is for three months during fall 2011 and carries a generous monthly stipend of $2,000.
- stores carry items
- carry a cell phone
- carry passengers
Also, for our store, we are going to start carrying free people in.
- Also, for our store, we are going to start carrying free people in.
- I can breathe without carrying oxygen with me.
Examples
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Named after Jonathan Swift, the ferry is designed to carry 800 passengers and 200 cars.
Academic text (2008) -
With improved ship design, larger ships have been built to carry more cargo and passengers.
Academic text (2008) -
It's less weight, it's less things that you have to carry in your bag.
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And yet you carry all that stuff with you.
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I always carry it, but never wear it.
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I carry it in my pack around the island.
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Even in this remote place, the bears carry heavy loads of pollutants.
Academic text (2012) -
The main problem was that the store did not carry merchandise geared toward retirees.
Academic text (2011) -
Some of Canada's best-known hedge funds carry $3 million minimums to get your foot in the door.
Academic text (2015) -
She can easily carry the groceries from the car to the kitchen.
Synonyms
To have space inside for something
To have something inside like a box or book
To have a mark, name, or title
To keep things such as animals for use or sale
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To support someone and do things for them without asking questions
Phrasal Verbs
- Specialized
To continue a pregnancy until the baby is fully developed and ready to be born
- Specialized
To move something unused from one period to the next so it can still be used
- Informal
Support or defend someone in a group, often without getting anything
- Specialized
Subtract a loss or unused tax credit from the previous year's taxable income to reduce tax for that year
- Informal
Have problems from the past that still affect your feelings or actions
Compounds
- Specialized
Using skill or knowledge from one situation in another similar situation
- Specialized
A way of carrying a person over your shoulders to move them quickly
- Specialized
An amount of profit or loss that a company moves from a past financial period to the next period
How Available
Surface Forms
Etymology
Carry originally meant putting goods on a cart, so it also came to mean 'have on board' or 'contain' like a vehicle that carries supplies. So, when something 'carries' a product or item, it means it has or holds it.