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carrying (root: carry)
CIDE DICTIONARY
carrying, n.
The act or business of transporting from one place to another. [1913 Webster]
"We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
carrying
accoutered, aid, air express, airfreight, airlift, anticipating, armed, asportation, backing, bearing, big with child, big-laden, bolstering, bracing, breeding, bristling with arms, burdened, buttressing, carriage, carry, carrying a fetus, cartage, conveyance, drayage, expecting, expressage, ferriage, freight, freightage, full-armed, gestating, gravid, great, haulage, hauling, heavy, heavy with child, heavy-armed, heeled, holding, in arms, knocked up, light-armed, lighterage, lugging, maintaining, maintenance, moral support, packing, parturient, portage, porterage, preggers, pregnant, propping, psychological support, railway express, reliance, security blanket, shipment, shipping, shoring, subsidy, subvention, superfetate, superimpregnated, support, supporting, supportive, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, suspensory, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, sustentative, sword in hand, teeming, telpherage, toting, transit, transport, transportation, transporting, transshipment, truckage, under arms, upholding, upkeep, waft, waftage, wagonage, well-armed, with childROGET THESAURUS
carrying
Transference
N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.For further exploring for "carrying" in Webster Dictionary Online