box van
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Noun
[edit]- A truck with an enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area.
- Synonyms: (chiefly in the US) box truck, (chiefly in Canada) cube van, cube truck
- Hypernym: straight job
- Hyponym: (UK) Luton van
- Coordinate terms: stakebody, flatbed, tractor-trailer
- (rail transport, UK, Australia) An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
- Synonyms: (formal) covered goods wagon, box wagon, (sense 2) goods van, (American English) van, boxcar
Translations
[edit]truck with enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area
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boxcar — see boxcar
References
[edit]- “box van”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.