Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bearer
IPA transcription: [b'ɛɹɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: carrier, bearer, toter
    Meaning: someone whose employment involves carrying something; "the bonds were transmitted by carrier"
  • Synonyms: bearer
    Meaning: a messenger who bears or presents; "a bearer of good tidings"
Usage examples
  • You should indorse every check you deposit, even though it be payable to bearer.
  • It was interrupted by the reappearance of Pluto; whose important air, as he re-entered the room, proclaimed him the bearer of eventful tidings.
  • Never mail a check drawn to "Bearer." Remember that if your check is made payable to "Bearer" or to "John Smith or Bearer" it may be cashed by anybody who happens to have it.
  • On second thoughts, I shall be gone to lunch, so here's your money," he added, handing the lad the bit of soiled paper by which the United States government acknowledged its indebtedness to the bearer in the sum of ten cents.
  • As for the brand, if its bearer draw it and brandish it against an army, the army will be put to the rout; and if he say the while, 'Slay yonder host,' there will come forth of that sword lightning and fire, that will kill the whole many.
  • "The bearer of the despatch insisted that I ought to obey the order, and was giving arguments to support the position, when I heard a great cheering to the right of our line, and looking in that direction, saw Lawler, in his shirt-sleeves, leading a charge on the enemy.