a group of vehicles or ships travelling together, especially when soldiers or other vehicles travel with them for protection:
a convoy of trucks / lorries / freighters * A United Nations aid convoy loaded with food and medicine finally got through to the besieged town.
IDIOMS
in convoy (of travelling vehicles) as a group; together:
We drove in convoy because I didn't know the route.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for convoy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is convoy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, convoy is tagged as noun.
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