troopship

[ troop-ship ]

/ ˈtrupˌʃɪp /

a ship for the conveyance of military troops; transport.

Origin of troopship

First recorded in 1860–65; troop + ship¹

trone, tronk, troop, troop carrier, trooper, troopship, troostite, trop, trop-, trop., tropaeolin

Every liner is a troopship, filled with returning soldiers, and the staterooms are crowded with officers and diplomats.

Louisiana Lou |William West Winter
Who of the millions that have undergone the experience will ever forget their first crossing of the Channel in a troopship?

Canada in Flanders, Volume II (of 3) |Lord Max Aitken Beaverbrook
Feb. 6—United States troopship Tuscania sunk by submarine, lost.

America's War for Humanity |Thomas Herbert Russell
The troopship had arrived and we were to embark on the morrow.

A Soldier's Life |Edwin G. Rundle

Here we were put aboard the hospital ship Rewa, an old rocky tub that had been an Indian troopship before the war.

Trenching at Gallipoli |John Gallishaw

troopship

/ (ˈtruːpˌʃɪp) /

a ship, usually a converted merchant ship, used to transport military personnel