The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carrying \Car"ry*ing\, n. The act or business of transporting from one place to another.
Carrying place, a carry; a portage.
Carrying trade, the business of transporting goods, etc., from one place or country to another by water or land; freighting.
We are rivals with them in . . . the carrying trade.
--Jay.
Usage examples of "carrying trade".
Eventually we'll have a dozen or more, in the carrying trade, exploring, swapping our manufactures for food and raw materials.
In short, by her Trade and Navigation Acts England sought to engross not only the carrying trade but the general trade of her colonies and to exclude them from the markets of the world.
I scarcely need to remind any of you of the existence of the Office of Frontier Security, or of the Mesa System, or of the many Solarian shipping lines which deeply resent our domination of the carrying trade around the periphery of the League.
Twenty-eight ships insystem, twenty of them carrying trade beacons, and eight of them showing as armed, weapons hot, under the Rosvirein Peace Force logo.
If a war with England should take place, it seems to me that the first thing necessary would be a resolution to abandon the carrying trade because we cannot protect it.
If America brings up none of her people to a seafaring life before the mast, now that her population is upwards of 13,000,000, still less likely was she to have done it when her population was less, and the openings to wealth by other channels were greater: from whence it may be fairly inferred, that, during our continued struggle with France, when America had the carrying trade in her hands, her vessels were chiefly manned by british seamen.
These cities depended for their prosperity on the carrying trade and fishing, and for them the continued state of hostilities since the end of the Twelve Years Truce in 1621 had been a major burden.
After all, something like three quarters of the Star Kingdom's prosperity rested on its carrying trade and the mammoth through traffic the Manticoran Wormhole Junction serviced.
The Republic had accepted the deliberate, calculated humiliation, for refusal would have driven even their own cargoes into freighters which could use the Junction, with disastrous effects upon their carrying trade.
He could make it very advantageous for us to go into the carrying trade.
For a number of years later this line enjoyed a practical monopoly of the steam carrying trade between England and the United States.
The colonies began to seem valuable to England because they furnished a market for English manufactures and a carrying trade for English ships.