WordNet
n. any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops [syn: troop carrier]
Usage examples of "troop transport".
They brought a battle-cruiser and a troop transport with a regiment of Line Marines.
I nudge the thing around the hulk of the troop transport, which is too large for me to move without discharging my Hellbores into it, which would be a waste of battlefield resources I will doubtless need.
The Guild itself caused this by spreading tales about what we do here and by reducing troop transport fares to a point where even the poorest Houses are up there now waiting to loot us.
Ihe Guild, alarmed by the changes they had observed on the planet-especially the increased tempo in troop activity brought about by Paul Muad' Dib-not only relayed this information to the throne, but also reduced troop transport fares to a minimum.
Seated alone in the rear of the troop transport, huddled in his desert gear, Kynes felt uncomfortable in such company.
The second phase of three weeks was dedicated to finding the World War II troop transport Leopoldville and the famed Confederate raider Alabama, which went down after a furious battle with Union frigate Kearsarge, off Cherbourg.
Hunley, a confederate submarine-the first to sink a ship in battle, The Leopoldville, a troop transport torpedoed by a German u-boat on Christmas eve, 1944 and the discovery of U-20, the german sub that sank the Lucitania in 1915.
Ron Holt, his radioman, had taken charge of the troop transport table.
They detailed three huge troop transport ships at the harbor in Amoy.
The USS Tangier, a seaplane tender pressed into duty as a troop transport, with the 4th Marine Defense Battalion on board, was in line behind the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, which flew the flag of Rear Admiral Frank Fletcher, Commander of Task Force 14.
The wounded troop transport has made a safe landing, but the speed of my attack and that of the air force has forced its captain into the serious error of landing on the near side of Nineveh Base.
Cables connected it to the power source of the large troop transport.
It's high speed relative to a troop transport, not compared to anything else.