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TROL-ee/ˈtrɒli/

A trolley is a cart on wheels for shopping or for moving patients and equipment (UK; US cart or gurney in hospitals). A basket is smaller and carried. Supermarkets: put the trolley back; a fine is not a rumour.

Meaning

A cart on wheels for shopping or for moving patients and equipment (UK; US cart).

Examples

• “Put the supermarket trolley back; a fine is not a rumour.”
• “The ward trolley is not a spare desk for files, which is the hospital sense.”

Good to know

a trolley; a supermarket / drinks / ward trolley. US: a cart. NHS / shops. Countable. Mix-up: a tram is on rails (US streetcar); UK trolleybus is rare extra history.

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