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container

[ kuhn-tey-ner ]

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noun

anything that contains or can contain something, as a carton, box, crate, or can.
a large, vanlike, reuseable box for consolidating smaller crates or cartons into a single shipment, designed for easy and fast loading and unloading of freight.

container

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noun

an object used for or capable of holding, esp for transport or storage, such as a carton, box, etc
1. a large cargo-carrying standard-sized container that can be loaded from one mode of transport to another
2. ( as modifier )
  a container ship
  a container port

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Word History and Origins

Origin of container¹

1400–50 for an earlier sense; 1495–1505 container fordef 1; late Middle English conteiner; contain, -er ¹

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Children line up for charity meals holding out plastic containers.

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Iran's interior minister has said negligence was a factor in the massive explosion and fire at the country's largest container port, as the death toll rose to at least 70.

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The collapse in container traffic from China to the port of Los Angeles - the main artery of the world economy for the first quarter of the 21st century - is the one to watch.

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Others showed firefighters working among toppled and blackened cargo containers, and carrying out the body of a victim.

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Officials told state TV the explosion had been centred in the port and that several unsealed containers had exploded.

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