'Transportation' definitions:
Definition of 'transportation'
(from WordNet)
noun
A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods [syn: transportation system, transportation, transit]
noun
The act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance]
noun
The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance [syn: fare, transportation]
noun
The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966 [syn: Department of Transportation, Transportation, DoT]
noun
noun
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" [syn: exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation]
Definition of 'Transportation'
From: GCIDE
- Transportation \Trans`por*ta"tion\, n. [L. transportatio: cf. F. transportation.]
- 1. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance. [1913 Webster]
- To provide a vessel for their transportation. --Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Transport; ecstasy. [R.] --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'transportation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air express,
- airfreight,
- airlift,
- asportation,
- banishment,
- bearing,
- blackballing,
- carriage,
- carry,
- carrying,
- cartage,
- conveyance,
- defrocking,
- degradation,
- demotion,
- depluming,
- deportation,
- deprivation,
- disbarment,
- disfellowship,
- displuming,
- drayage,
- exclusion,
- excommunication,
- exile,
- expatriation,
- expressage,
- extradition,
- ferriage,
- freight,
- freightage,
- fugitation,
- haulage,
- hauling,
- lighterage,
- lugging,
- moving,
- ostracism,
- ostracization,
- outlawing,
- outlawry,
- packing,
- portage,
- porterage,
- railway express,
- relegation,
- rustication,
- shipment,
- shipping,
- stripping,
- telpherage,
- toting,
- transit,
- transport,
- transporting,
- transshipment,
- truckage,
- unfrocking,
- waft,
- waftage,
- wagonage
Words containing 'Transportation'
- Transport,
- Transportability,
- Transportable,
- Transportal,
- Transportance,
- Transportant,
- Transported,
- Transportedly,
- Transporter,
- Transporting,
- Transportingly,
- Transportment,
- active transport,
- air transport,
- air transportation,
- car transporter,
- department of transportation,
- passive transport,
- public transport,
- secretary of transportation,
- tape transport,
- transport ship,
- transport vessel,
- transportation company,
- transportation secretary,
- transportation system,
- troop transport,
- air transportation system,
- ministry of transportation test,
- segway human transporter,
- transportation security administration,
- cystic fibrosis transport regulator