Common Carrier
nounid
1861·updated May 12, 2026candidate
In a telecommunications context, a telecommunications company that holds itself out to the public for hire to provide communications transmission services. Note: In the United States, such companies are usually subject to regulation by federal and state regulatory commissions.
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Classifications
Entity Type
Organization0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- synonym
- carrier
- plural
- Common Carriers
- possessive
- Common Carrier's
- pluralpossessive
- Common Carriers'
Framework definitions
- §1
- In a telecommunications context, a telecommunications company that holds itself out to the public for hire to provide communications transmission services. Note: In the United States, such companies are usually subject to regulation by federal and state regulatory commissions.
- §1
- In a telecommunications context, a telecommunications company that holds itself out to the public for hire to provide communications transmission services. Note: In the United States, such companies are usually subject to regulation by federal and state regulatory commissions.
- §1
- a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages
- §1 · legacy_primary
- In a telecommunications context, a telecommunications company that holds itself out to the public for hire to provide communications transmission services. Note: In the United States, such companies are usually subject to regulation by federal and state regulatory commissions.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
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Incoming relationships
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