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n. 1 A person carrying a standard or flag, usually at sporting events and parades, previously on the battlefield. 2 (context business English) A transportation company, such as a shipping or airline company, that is registered in a given state 3 (context politics English) A strong supporter of a cause, or perhaps the strongest and most visible supporter of said cause. 4 A national airline (typically having the flag, or other national insignia, on the tail) 5 (context military nautical English) An aircraft carrier serving as a flagship
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A flag carrier is a transportation company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given state, enjoys preferential rights or privileges accorded by the government for international operations. The term also refers to any carrier that is or was owned by a government, even long after their privatization when preferential rights or privileges continue.
Flag carriers may be known as such due to maritime law requiring all aircraft or ships to display the state flag of the country of their registry.
A flag carrier (if it is a certificated airline rather than a holding company, conglomerate, or multinational private equity firm) may also be known as a national airline or a national carrier, although this can have different legal meanings in some countries.
Flag carrier may refer to:
- Standard-bearer, a person (soldier or civilian) who bears an emblem called an ensign or standard
- A person carrying a heraldic standard or flag, usually at sporting events and parades, previously on the battlefield
- Flag carrier, transportation company, such as a shipping or airline company, that is registered in a given state
- A strong supporter of a cause, or perhaps the strongest, most visible and most vocal supporter of said cause. Example: "Bill was the flag carrier of the movement to improve inner city education."
Usage examples of "flag carrier".
He could have his people connect through Dubai--remarkably, Emirates Airlines did fly out of Tehran into its own international hub, as did Kuwait's flag carrier, but they, he thought, were not a very good idea.
The rest were mainly wide-bodies of one sort or another, and most of them liveried in the colors of the nation-flag carrier of their country of origin.
On the bridge of the flag carrier Venture, a dozen Solarian bodies, bulked up with armor, lay strapped into combat chairs with ligatures of polyphase matter.
We almost always use Trans-Continental, our flag carrier airline, with whom we have a reduced Business Class fare arrangement, but more importantly, we have a security liaison person who works with Trans-Continental.
They chased the flag carrier through an almost solid wall of indios, trampling them under their horses' hooves and slashing them with their swords.
There they were met by a tall, spare Sodeskayan dressed in the civilian uniform of AkroKahn, the official flag carrier of the G.