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# conveyance

«conveyance» in Mova's school dictionary: **a vehicle or any way of carrying people or things: "a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a conveyance, conveyances; conveyance, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) A conveyance is a vehicle or any way of carrying people or things: "a horse-drawn conveyance". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#m1)

2) (formal) Conveyance is the act of carrying or moving something from one place to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#m2)

3) (law) Conveyance (conveyancing) is the legal work of passing the ownership of a house or land to someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In formal and old-fashioned writing, a "conveyance" means a carriage, cart, car or bus. In science, the conveyance of water through a plant or pipes means carrying it. Lawyers do conveyancing when a house is sold. Phrases: means of conveyance, public conveyance.

### examples

- The carriage was a fine conveyance pulled by four horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#x1)
- Buses are a cheap means of conveyance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#x2)
- The conveyance of goods by canal was slow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#x3)
- Pipes provide the conveyance of water to the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#x4)
- The lawyer handled the conveyance of the house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#x5)
- "What is this strange conveyance?" asked the knight, looking at the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#x6)
- I shall start on my travels, but what conveyance shall I choose? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/#x7)

### note

Formal and old-fashioned. Verb: convey (to carry; to make an idea known). Everyday words: vehicle, transport. A conveyor belt carries things along in a factory.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «conveyance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conveyance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.