convoy
Escorted vehicle group
A convoy is a group of vehicles or ships traveling together, typically for protection or mutual support.
Military convoys move troops and supplies under armed escort.
Civilian convoys form for safety or solidarity: a convoy of aid trucks, a convoy of truckers protesting fuel prices.
To convoy is to travel in or escort such a group.
Guarding against harm
- guardedWary and restrained
- accompaniedWent along with someone
- securityProtection from threat
- armedCarrying weapons
outriders · motorcade · flanking · surveillance · bodyguards · shielded · VIP · safeguarded
Traveling group with goods
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- goodsThings for sale
- cargoTransported goods
- shipmentGoods being transported
commerce · route · supply · silk road · spices · camels · desert · oasis
Large freight-hauling vehicles
- rigsArranges unfairly
- highwayMajor road for travel
- interstateBetween political regions
- haulingTransporting heavy items
drivers · CB radio · teamsters · freight · cargo · cross-country · rest stop · diesel
Fleet of warships
- flotillaSmall naval fleet
- squadronMilitary aviation unit
- vesselsCarriers or containers
- warshipsMilitary combat vessels
destroyers · submarines · frigates · battleships · cruisers · merchantmen · tankers · freighters
Small infantry formation
- battalionMid-sized military unit
- armoredProtected by metal covering
- tanksStorage vessels for liquids
- troopsMilitary personnel collectively
column · formation · regiment · brigade · infantry · artillery · division · tactical
Support given freely
- reliefEasing of distress
- suppliesResources for a task
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- foodConsumable nourishment source
medicine · emergency · crisis · Red Cross · UN · peacekeeping · distribution · volunteers
protection
Guarding against harm
- guardedWary and restrained
- accompaniedWent along with someone
- securityProtection from threat
armed · outriders · motorcade · flanking · surveillance · bodyguards · shielded · VIP · safeguarded · defended
caravan
Traveling group with goods
shipment · commerce · route · supply · silk road · spices · camels · desert · oasis · bazaar
semi-trucks
Large freight-hauling vehicles
- rigsArranges unfairly
- highwayMajor road for travel
- interstateBetween political regions
hauling · drivers · CB radio · teamsters · freight · cargo · cross-country · rest stop · diesel · eighteen-wheelers
armada
Fleet of warships
warships · destroyers · submarines · frigates · battleships · cruisers · merchantmen · tankers · freighters · U-boats
platoon
Small infantry formation
troops · column · formation · regiment · brigade · infantry · artillery · division · tactical · maneuver
aid
Support given freely
food · medicine · emergency · crisis · Red Cross · UN · peacekeeping · distribution · volunteers · trucks
- truckingsemi, 18-wheeler, trucks, truckers, big rig
- caravanscamel caravans, camel caravan, caravan route, caravan routes, caravan leader
- convoysmotorcade, caravan, fleet, wagon train, armada
- processionsparade, procession, march, funeral procession, military parade
- traveling groupscaravan, fleet, tour group, school trip, delegation
- naval historybattleships, naval battles, naval history, admiral, battleship
- conveyor beltEndless loop transporter
- truck convoyGroup of haulers traveling together
- military convoyArmed forces transport formation
- naval convoyProtected group at sea
- supply convoyVehicles transporting provisions together
- aid convoysGroups transporting humanitarian supplies
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