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owner-operators

owner-operators is the plural of owner-operator.

Meaning of owner-operator

Noun

owner-operator (plural owner-operators)

  1. Someone who both owns and operates a piece of equipment, especially a semi-trailer truck (articulated lorry). They are a contractor; they may be a commercial carrier, but most often they provide capacity (trucks and drivers, with or without trailers or chassis) to either commercial or private carriers as a subcontractor.

Questions about owner-operators

What is owner-operators the plural of?
Owner-operators is the plural of owner-operator.

Words near owner-operators in the dictionary

  1. owner-driver
  2. owner-drivers
  3. owner-occupier
  4. owner-occupiers
  5. owner-operator
  6. owner-operators
  7. owner-type jeepney
  8. owner-type jeepneys
  9. owneress
  10. owneresses
  11. ownerless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: owner-operators (page history and authors); owner-operator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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