Collocations for "carry"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "carry" in context.
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carry
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- carry [a gun, drugs, her bag, your driving license]
- carrying a (heavy) [load, weight, burden]
- carry a [burden, sorrow]
- carry a [full, large, complete] stock of
- carry [the trash, your purchase] out
- carry out [the trash]
- carry out [a transaction, an assessment, his plan]
- carry around a [purse, backpack, water bottle]
- carry on!
- carry on like [normal, usual]
- carry on with your [day, life, business, work]
- carry (it) over into the next [period, semester, year]
- carry them illegally
- carry it off
- carried [him, the injured player, his teammate] off
- carried off on a [stretcher, buggy]
- sound carries [over the water, through the room]
- [don't, before you] get (too) carried away
- get carried away with
- stop carrying on!
- stop carrying on (about)
- (she's) carrying [twins, a boy, a girl, low, high]
- [prize, award, word] carries (real) weight
- carries (no) weight with him
- UK: carry the can
- UK: (has to) carry the can for [him, his, everyone]
- carry forward with your [plans, day]
- carry in the [patio furniture, trash can]
- the [football, kick, jump] had a lot of carry
- [opened, set up, worked in, ran] a cash and carry
'carry' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Labour
- aircraft
- airplane
- amount
- anger
- appraisal
- awkward
- background
- backpack
- bag
- baggage
- basket
- blossom
- bulky
- burden
- butler
- camel
- cancellation
- cancer
- carry-on
- cash
- charter
- cluster
- command
- concealed
- cumbersome
- devise
- dimension
- donkey
- drain
- drive
- dryer
- durable
- dying
- end
- evaluation
- experiment
- faithfully
- feasibility
- golf
- hamper
- heart
- heavy
- hostile
- laptop
- lift
- load
- luggage
- medical
- modification