Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops [syn: troop transport]
Wikipedia
Troop carrier is a means of transporting soldiers. A troop carrier vehicle may be configured for troop transport while used for other purposes at other times.
The De Havilland Flamingo is an airplane used as a troop carrier; the Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a helicopter designed for it, though often used for other purposes. Military transport aircraft evolved from bombers.
The Nissan Patrol is a four-wheel drive vehicle with a model suited for troop carrier.
A troopship is a ship that serves the purpose.
Armoured personnel carriers also are troop carriers.
In another meaning, Leamington Transit was an electric railway in Canada that carried troops during World War I.
Usage examples of "troop carrier".
More and more of them pressed into the camp and with a sudden roar, a troop carrier came down the road, followed by another and yet another, half-tracks at the rear for mountain warfare, instead of wheels.
It plunged like an arrow toward the troop carrier which was unshielded because of the lasgun activity around it.
Three weeks before I'd been on the passenger ship, and now I was at the end of nowhere on an ancient troop carrier, with a detachment commander who'd kept us training so hard there'd been no time for talk or anything else.
Pa'an disregarded their salutes, strode past with his canines bared at them, and boarded the waiting troop carrier.
She was glad to be back in her old seat on the fast troop carrier—.
The bombs seemed to hang suspended in the air before slamming into the side of the troop carrier.
The strike commander, Colonel Sedger, came in from the lead troop carrier.
At Y 80, crews of the 333rd Troop Carrier Squadron of Wiesbaden's 7150th Composite Wing were in the Operations briefing room.
In the Centre corridor aircraft of the 40th Troop Carrier Squadron headed back to the joint base at Celle.
Darmstadter's Troop Carrier Squadron had not gone on combat missions and consequently had been issued no fresh eggs, so they should have been a real treat.