conveyer:

(also ‘conveyor’; plural: ‘conveyers‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “kong”)

to convey = to carry from one place to another; to communicate or pass on a message, an idea, etc.; to show sympathy, anger, etc.; (in Law) to transfer the title of ownership from one person to another

a person or a firm whose business is to take or carry people and things, using vehicles, from one place to another (convey);

(old and rare usage) a juggler, a thief,

a conveyor/packer (person) packing things on a conveyor belt (machine)

e.g.

Ethan is known to be the conveyer/conveyor of information in our office, because you only need to tell him something, and it will be conveyed to all the people by evening.

My elder brother is a conveyer/conveyor, running a goods transport business which includes delivering food products made in one place to various outlets all over our region.

Some truck drivers were arrested on the charges of carrying contraband goods in their trucks by the customs inspectors; the drivers, however, denied the charges saying that they were not the conveyers/conveyors of goods but were just truck drivers, and further argued that the actual conveyors were either the consignor or the consignee of the goods.

For an advertisement/blog post which shows us how we come upon this word in our daily reading (the word is found in the text under the first item ‘security’), please click here, and for an article on ‘conveyor belts’ (machines) that move goods from one place to another, please click here. And for an informative article on the different types of mechanical movers, please click here.

a people mover/conveyor at an airport

The more common meaning is a device called ‘conveyer belt’ which is fixed at crowded places, such as a factory, a large supermarket, a railway or bus station, airports, etc., run by electricity, for moving  people and things from one floor to another or one department to another.

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