armored car

Thân thiện

The valuable coins are transported in a secure armored car.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A military combat vehicle on wheels with light armor (and usually a machine gun).
   • An armor-plated truck with strong doors and locks used to transport money or other valuable items securely.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The convoy was protected by several armored cars equipped with mounted guns.
  • The bank uses an armored car to move cash between its branches and the central vault.
  • Security was tight as the armored car arrived at the auction house to collect the jewels.

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used metonymically to refer to the security service or company operating such vehicles.
  • He works for an armored car company.
• In historical contexts, it can refer to early 20th-century military vehicles that were essentially cars with added armor and weapons.

Variants and Related Words

• Armoured car: The British English spelling variant.
• Cash-in-transit vehicle: A more formal or descriptive term for the secure transport truck.
• Security van: A common synonym, especially in British English.
• Personnel carrier: A related military vehicle designed to transport troops, which may also be armored.

Synonyms

• For the military vehicle: Scout car, light armored vehicle.
• For the secure transport vehicle: Security truck, bullion van, cash truck.

Related Phrases

• Armored car service: The business of securely transporting valuables.
• Armored car robbery: A specific type of crime targeting these vehicles.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a military combat vehicle on wheels with light armor (and usually a machine gun)
2. an armor-plated truck with strong doors and locks used to transport money or valuables
   • the paintings were delivered to the museum in an air-conditioned armored car

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