conveyance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=vey=ance

CIDE DICTIONARY

conveyance, n. 

•  The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.  [1913 Webster]

  "The long journey was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyance."  [1913 Webster]

  "Following the river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "These pipes and these conveyances of our blood."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.  [1913 Webster]

  "Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "[He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl."  [1913 Webster]
•  Dishonest management, or artifice.  [1913 Webster]

  "the very Jesuits themselves . . . can not possibly devise any juggling conveyance how to shift it off."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

conveyance, n.
1 a the act or process of carrying. b the communication (of ideas etc.). c transmission.
2 a means of transport; a vehicle.
3 Law a the transfer of property from one owner to another. b a document effecting this.

Derivative

conveyancer n. (in sense 3). conveyancing n. (in sense 3).

THESAURUS

conveyance

abalienation, abstraction, air express, aircraft, airfreight, airlift, alienation, amortization, amortizement, annexation, announcement, appropriation, asportation, assignation, assignment, bargain and sale, barter, bearing, bequeathal, boosting, carriage, carrier, carry, carrying, cartage, cession, charter, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, conversion, conveyancing, deed, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, disclosure, disposal, disposition, drayage, embezzlement, enfeoffment, exchange, expressage, ferriage, filching, fraud, freight, freightage, giving, graft, haulage, hauling, impartation, imparting, impartment, lease and release, liberation, lifting, lighterage, lugging, medium of transportation, notification, packing, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, poaching, portage, porterage, publication, railway express, sale, scrounging, settlement, settling, sharing, shipment, shipping, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, surrender, swindle, swiping, telling, telpherage, theft, thievery, thieving, toting, trading, transfer, transference, transit, transmission, transmittal, transport, transportation, transporting, transshipment, truckage, vehicle, vesting, waft, waftage, wagonage, watercraft

ROGET THESAURUS

conveyance

Transfer

N transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation, demise, limitation, conveyancing, transmission, enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release, exchange, barter, substitution, succession, reversion, shifting use, shifting trust, devolution, alienable, negotiable, estate coming into possession.

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.

Vehicle

N vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van, common carrier, wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry, truck, tram, cariole, carriole, limber, tumbrel, pontoon, barrow, wheel barrow, hand barrow, perambulator, Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair, chaise, palankeen, palanquin, litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance, black Maria, conestoga wagon, conestoga wain, jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel, hobbyhorse, go-cart, cycle, bicycle, bike, two-wheeler, tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle, equipage, turn-out, coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton, wagonette, drag, curricle, tilbury, whisky, landau, barouche, victoria, brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka, berlin, sulky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse, jaunting car, outside car, dandi, doolie, dooly, munchil, palki, roller skates, skate, runabout, ski, tonjon, vettura, post chaise, diligence, stage, stage coach, mail coach, hackney coach, glass coach, stage wagon, car, omnibus, fly, cabriolet, cab, hansom, shofle, four-wheeler, growler, droshki, drosky, dogcart, trap, whitechapel, buggy, four-in-hand, unicorn, random, tandem, shandredhan, char-a-bancs, motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan, wheels, sports car, roadster, gran turismo, jeep, four-wheel drive vehicle, electric car, steamer, golf cart, electric wagon, taxicab, cab, taxicoach, checker cab, yellow cab, station wagon, family car, motorcycle, motor bike, side car, van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus, truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor- trailer, road train, articulated vehicle, racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car, bob, bobsled, bobsleigh, cutter, double ripper, double runner, jumper, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan, train, accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train, 1st class train, 2nd class train, 3rd class train, 1st class carriage, 2nd class carriage, 3rd class carriage, 1st class compartment, 2nd class compartment, 3rd class compartment, rolling stock, horse box, cattle truck, baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car, surface car, tram car, trolley car, box car, box wagon, horse car, bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express, luggage van, mail, mail car, mail van, shovel, spool, spatula, ladle, hod, hoe, spade, spaddle, loy, spud, pitchfork, post hole digger, tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller, pile driver, crane, wrecking crane.