convoy
[verb]
Synonyms: accompany, attend, bear, bring, carry, companion, company, conduct, consort (with), escort

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Related Words: defend, guard, protect, safeguard, shield

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I. con‧voy¹ /ˈkɒnvɔɪ $ ˈkɑːn-/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: convoi, from Old French conveier, convoier; ⇒ convey]
a group of vehicles or ships travelling together, sometimes in order to protect one another
convoy of
The British left in a convoy of 20 cars.
in convoy
We drove in convoy.
a military convoy
aid/relief/food etc convoy

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II. convoy² verb [transitive]
to travel with something in order to protect it:
American destroyers helped to convoy much-needed supplies to Britain in 1917.

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convoy
noun
ADJ. armed, army, military, naval, troop | road, vehicle | aid, food, humanitarian, relief the proposal to send 500 armed soldiers to escort food convoys
UN/United Nations
VERB + CONVOY lead | escort, protect | attack
CONVOY + VERB carry sth | arrive
PREP. in ~ The ships travelled in convoy.
~ of a large convoy of lorries carrying medical supplies
~ to the next aid convoy to the war-torn region

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

convoy

an aid/relief/humanitarian convoy (=taking food, clothes, medicine etc to people in disaster areas)
The United Nations aid convoy finally reached the border.
a food convoy (=taking food)
Troops were sent to guard the food convoys.
a military/army/troop convoy
28 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military convoy.
an armed convoy (=carrying weapons)
a heavily armed convoy of three vehicles
a truck/vehicle convoy
The troops' truck convoy was travelling along the edge of the desert.
a police convoy (=of police vehicles)
Rebels have ambushed a police convoy in the east.
go in convoy (=go together, in separate vehicles)
We could all meet up somewhere and go in convoy.
escort a convoy (=go with a convoy)
Troops will escort convoys of emergency food through the war zones.
ambush a convoy (=attack a convoy)
Gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks heading north.
a convoy carries something
The military convoy was carrying supplies to a NATO base at Malatya.
a convoy arrives
The convoy arrived in Gelib carrying 450 tonnes of food.
a convoy reaches something
When is the convoy expected to reach its destination?

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