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Trucking   /trˈəkɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Trucking  n.  The business of conveying goods on trucks.



verb
Truck  v. t.  To transport on a truck or trucks.



Truck  v. t.  (past & past part. trucked; pres. part. trucking)  To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. "We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another."



Truck  v. i.  To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal. "A master of a ship, who deceived them under color of trucking with them." "Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster." "To truck and higgle for a private good."






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"Trucking" Quotes from Famous Books



... shapes, of the fatal doctrine that money, position, power, philanthropy, or any of the thousand seductive masks of the pseudo-expedient, may carry a man away from love of truth and yet leave him internally unharmed. The depravation that follows the trucking for money of intellectual freedom and self-respect, attends in its degree each other departure from disinterested following of truth, and each other substitution of convenience, whether public or private, in its place. And both parties to such a compromise are losers. The world which offers gifts ...
— On Compromise • John Morley



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