transportation

trans·por·ta·tion  (trnspr-tshn)

n.

1.

a. The act or an instance of transporting.

b. The state of being transported.

2. A means of conveyance.

3. The business of conveying passengers or goods.

4. A charge for public conveyance; fare.

5. Deportation to a penal colony.

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transportation

Noun

1. a means or system of transporting

2. the act of transporting or the state of being transported

3. History deportation to a penal colony

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	transportation - a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods transportation system, transit airfield, flying field, landing field, field - a place where planes take off and land air transportation system - a transportation system for moving passengers or goods by air bridge, span - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" highway system - a transportation system consisting of roads for motor transport infrastructure, base - the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan" line - a commercial organization serving as a common carrier public transit - a public transportation system for moving passengers public transport - conveyance for passengers or mail or freight short line - a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances telferage, telpherage - a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity depot, terminal, terminus - station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods way - any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another; "he said he was looking for the way out"
	2.	transportation - the act of moving something from one location to another transfer, transferral, conveyance, transport movement - the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel" transshipment - the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment airlift, lift - transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) connexion, connection - shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta" bringing, delivery - the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" drive - the act of driving a herd of animals overland carry - the act of carrying something pickup - the act of taking aboard passengers or freight lighterage - the transportation of goods on a lighter relocation, resettlement - the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) teleportation - a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another
	3.	transportation - the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance fare charge - the price charged for some article or service; "the admission charge" airfare - the fare charged for traveling by airplane bus fare, carfare - the fare charged for riding a bus or streetcar cab fare, taxi fare - the fare charged for riding in a taxicab train fare - the fare charged for traveling by train
	4.	Transportation - the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966 Department of Transportation, DoT executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States FAA, Federal Aviation Agency - an agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation Transportation Security Administration, TSA - an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel U. S. Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard, US Coast Guard - an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce
	5.	transportation - the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials shipping, transport commerce, commercialism, mercantilism - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" air transport, air transportation - transportation by air navigation - ship traffic; "the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts" hauling, trucking, truckage - the activity of transporting goods by truck freight, freightage - transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates expressage, express - rapid transport of goods ferrying, ferry - transport by boat or aircraft on-line, online - on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system; "on-line industries" off-line - not on a regular route of a transportation system; "an off-line ticket office"
	6.	transportation - 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" deportation, expatriation, exile banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

Translations

transportation [trænspɔːˈteɪʃən] n → transporte m [of prisoners] → deportación f

transportation [trænspɔːˈteɪʃən] transport n → (moyen m de) transport m [of prisoners]; transportation f;

Department of Transportation (US) → ministère m des Transports

transportation [ˈtrænspɔːˈteɪʃən] transport n → Transport m, Beförderung f;

(means of transport) → Beförderungsmittel nt;

Department of Transportation transport (US) → Verkehrsministerium nt

transportation [ˈtrænspɔːˈteɪʃən] n → (mezzo di) trasporto; [of prisoners] → deportazione f;

Department of Transportation (US) → Ministero dei Trasporti