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motor van

noun

British.
  1. a motor truck, especially one enclosed to protect the cargo.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of motor van1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

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He rode about Northern Virginia on a three-wheel cycle and drove alone across the country on a specially equipped motor van.

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The figure which had tried to dodge around the end of a motor van to escape observation looked nothing at all like the Sammy Pinkney the Kenway girls had formerly known.

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After about 45 minutes the three-man team piles into its motor van and speeds off to another beach.

Like a householder who took his visitors for tradesmen, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery stood in the door of his motor van and demanded icily : " do you want?"

Returning in the carrier's motor van she sat nid-nod, while conversation ran blithe as a freshet over ulcered legs, murders, spring onions, and the price of eggs.

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