Meaning of truck In English

• 0 a large road vehicle that is used for transporting large amounts of goods:

  • The road was completely blocked by an overturned truck.

  • a truck driver

  • Hundreds of refugees were herded into cattle trucks for the gruelling ten-hour journey.

• 1 to refuse to become involved with something or someone because you do not approve of it, him, or her

• 2 to transport something somewhere in a truck:

  • Most of the aid is being trucked into the city, although some is arriving by boat.

• 3 a large vehicle with an open or covered space in the back to hold a load of goods

• 4 a large road vehicle that is used for transporting goods:

  • The union represents truck drivers.

  • a commercial/delivery/tanker truck He drives a delivery truck for the furniture store.

  • a heavy/light/pick-up truck

  • Car and truck sales plunged 8% last month .

• 5 a part of a train that is used for carrying goods or animals:

  • a cattle/coal truck

• 6 a road vehicle that is open at the back, used for carrying goods or animals:

  • a cattle/horse truck

• 7 a small vehicle on wheels that you push or pull, used for carrying things:

  • Bring a hand truck to help unload boxes.

• 8 to transport something in a truck:

  • The wild, rod-caught salmon is trucked down from Loch Lomond.

  • Massive roof trusses were manufactured off site, trucked in, and placed by crane.

  • The soda pop is trucked 1,500 miles twice a month from bottling plants in Mexico.