Conveyance
[kən'veɪəns] or [kən'veəns]
Definition
(noun.) act of transferring property title from one person to another.
(noun.) something that serves as a means of transportation.
(noun.) the transmission of information.
(noun.) document effecting a property transfer.
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Definition
(n.) The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.
(n.) The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water.
(n.) The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.
(n.) The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another.
(n.) Dishonest management, or artifice.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Transfer, demise, alienation, cession, transferrence.[2]. Carriage, vehicle.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONVEY]
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Examples
- With the opening of this line the success of the railroad as a practical means of conveyance became assured. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He asked for a conveyance to the railway station the moment I entered the room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was a most remarkable ride for any age by horse conveyance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Will you procure us some safe conveyance? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Little Dorrit had no conveyance there: which rather surprised him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Peggotty had a basket of refreshments on her knee, which would have lasted us out handsomely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Have you any sort of conveyance? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If you had, you will please to give this to the French ambassador, requesting his conveyance of it to the good Duke de la Rochefoucauld. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was easy to guess the style of lady who would be at the opera alone, trusting to chance or Nugent for a conveyance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Later it was found that the passenger conveyance could better be carried at the side mounted upon a springed chassis which was supported by a third wheel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He had hired a conveyance and sent off his goods by two o'clock that day. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That they will become a speedier and cheaper mode of conveyance than carriages drawn by horses. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Her letters still passed by the same conveyance; but through an intermediate friend. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They were afterwards sent to Cumberland by the conveyance which was used for the funeral. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Hence the public has the right of regulating descents, and all other conveyances of property, and even of limiting the quantity and the uses of it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The carts and conveyances of the poor were cumbrous, heavy contrivances, without springs, mostly two-wheel, heavy carts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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