to truck
- verb
- /trʌk/
- US
- Nasir said he paid to have all of the gasoline trucked here from the city.
- water must be trucked
You know, get that thing trucked in or trained in.
- You know, get that thing trucked in or trained in.
Examples
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They are trucking furniture from the warehouse to the new store.
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Apparently they're going to truck the entire house off somewhere.
Fiction book (1995) -
I have to keep them in a garage and truck them in.
Fiction book (1998) -
The 100 m towers are too long to truck in one piece by road or rail.
Blog text (5) -
"Figure half a day to unload, reload, and truck them here from the airport," David had told him.
Fiction book (2000) -
Crude portable lights were trucked in along with generators.
Fiction book (1998) -
Piles of harvested cane are collected and trucked to a nearby factory for processing.
Academic text (2003) -
In addition to manure from the farm's dairy cows, cow and horse manures are trucked in from area farms.
Academic text (2000) -
The two of them have been trucking water from the world's largest undiscovered desert aquifer, up to the Van Patterson almond farms in San Joaquin.
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The company trucks supplies daily to the construction site.
Synonyms
To move people or goods from one place to another, often by vehicle
To send goods to another place, often by truck, plane or boat
To carry something in a vehicle or over a long distance
To move goods or people using a small vehicle with a closed back
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A fire engine with a long ladder that stretches to reach high places and rescue people
- Specialized
A fire engine with a long ladder that can extend to reach high places for fighting fires or rescuing people
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb truck comes from the noun truck (the cart or vehicle) and simply means 'to carry' goods by that vehicle, so to truck something is to transport it by truck.