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  • noun Plural form of conveyance.

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Examples

  • The downside of these internal combustion engine, fossil fuel-driven conveyances is that they pollute.

    Vintage cars in a Mexico City museum 2009

  • The downside of these internal combustion engine, fossil fuel-driven conveyances is that they pollute.

    Vintage cars in a Mexico City museum 2009

  • You have been seeing in English conveyances the placards in neat type posted about which kindly request the traveller not to expectorate upon the floor of this vehicle, as to do so may cause inconvenience to other passengers or spread disease, and so forth and so on.

    Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

  • The suit calls the conveyances "a sham" and "fraudulent" and asserts that Washington "continues to control the properties."

    Forbes.com: News 2009

  • The suit calls the conveyances "a sham" and "fraudulent" and asserts that Washington "continues to control the properties."

    Forbes.com: News 2009

  • The suit calls the conveyances "a sham" and "fraudulent" and asserts that Washington "continues to control the properties."

    IRS Sues Ex-Texas Congressman 2009

  • In winter the county families went to sleep like dormice, so that no strange-calling conveyances passed the lodge-gates at

    The Tragic Bride Francis Brett Young 1919

  • We stopped to take a look around and saw people coming in, every hour of the day, over the Platte and Arkansas river routes, and could see all kind of conveyances from a hand cart to a six-horse team.

    Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899

  • We stopped to take a look around and saw people coming in, every hour of the day, over the Platte and Arkansas river routes, and could see all kind of conveyances from a hand cart to a six-horse team.

    Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains William F. Drannan 1872

  • "conveyances," and as to the last, an occasional "blinder" to the professors.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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