What does transportation mean?

Definitions for transportation
ˌtræns pərˈteɪ ʃəntrans·porta·tion

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word transportation.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. transportation system, transportation, transitnoun

    a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

  2. transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyancenoun

    the act of moving something from one location to another

  3. fare, transportationnoun

    the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance

  4. Department of Transportation, Transportation, DoTnoun

    the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

  5. transportation, shipping, transportnoun

    the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

  6. exile, deportation, expatriation, transportationnoun

    the act of expelling a person from their native land

    "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life"

Wiktionary

  1. transportationnoun

    The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.

    We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation.

  2. transportationnoun

    Deportation to a penal colony.

    Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.

  3. transportationnoun

    A means of conveyance.

    Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Transportationnoun

    Etymology: from transport.

    Sir Francis Cottington and Mr. Endymion Porter had been sent before to provide a vessel for their transportation. Henry Wotton, Life of Buckingham.

    Some were not so solicitous to provide against the plague, as to know whether we had it from the malignity of our own air, or by transportation. Dryden.

    All pleasures that affect the body must needs weary, because they transport, and all transportation is a violence; and no violence can be lasting but determines upon the falling of the spirits. South.

Wikipedia

  1. transportation

    Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport enables human trade, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of both fixed installations, including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, and pipelines, and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fueling docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance. Means of transport are any of the different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or cargo. They may include vehicles, riding animals, and pack animals. Vehicles may include wagons, automobiles, bicycles, buses, trains, trucks, helicopters, watercraft, spacecraft, and aircraft.

ChatGPT

  1. transportation

    Transportation refers to the movement of people, animals, goods or products from one location to another through various modes such as vehicles, bicycles, airplanes, trains, ships, trucks, or on foot. It plays a crucial role in commerce and daily life, enabling trade, travel, and other essential activities. The transportation sector includes infrastructure, vehicles, operations, and regulations associated with this movement.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Transportationnoun

    the act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance

  2. Transportationnoun

    transport; ecstasy

Wikidata

  1. Transportation

    Companies in this industry provide transportation of goods and people over rail, water, air, and road.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Transportation

    The means of moving persons, animals, goods, or materials from one place to another.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. transportation

    The act of transporting, carrying, or conveying from one place to another; as, the transportation of troops, munitions of war, etc.

Editors Contribution

  1. transportation

    A structure or system to provide a form of transport.

    Transportation systems around the world function easily and effeciently.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 1, 2020  


  2. transportation

    The act and process of to transport.

    The transportation system works efficiently.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 11, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of transportation in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of transportation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of transportation in a Sentence

  1. Joe Agoada:

    We hear of individuals who take the bus to and from work everyday and they can not take a day off work and they really need help with that transportation barrier.

  2. Mike Steenhoek:

    A customer of U.S. soybeans in Asia could save 35 cents per bushel simply due to greater transportation efficiency.

  3. Chris Farrell:

    We have this image of the way life unfolds - you go to school, work and raise children and then retire somewhere else, plenty of our institutions have reflected that. But as people work longer and stay in urban areas longer, the impact will be profound - just for one example, older people tend to want public transportation - and so do younger people.

  4. Min Thein:

    There is a transportation problem for the area not only for kalar but also other ethnics such as Rakhine, Daignet, etc.

  5. Paul Sciarra:

    I think this service really allows people to rethink the way that we've thought about transportation, which has generally been thought about two dimensions, and really bring that to three dimensions.

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