Definition of transportation
1 : an act, process, or instance of transporting or being transported
2a : means of conveyance or travel from one place to anotherb : public conveyance of passengers or goods especially as a commercial enterprise
3 : banishment to a penal colony
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Examples of transportation in a Sentence
the transportation of troops overseas
She arranged for the transportation of her furniture to her new apartment.
He was the U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Reagan.
Recent Examples of transportation from the Web
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In July 2015, Gov. Bruce Rauner suspended non-transportation capital projects and grants as part of wide-ranging budget cuts, pushing back against a Democratic-endorsed spending plan that was more than $3 billion short.
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Conversely, once July 1 rolls around there could be transportation bottlenecks as stores rush to restock.
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The transportation service is free, offered in gratitude for being given a second chance and with appreciation for the importance of family support.
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A decade later a tornado damaged the roof of the 1952 warehouse but the monolithic Roundhouse continues to stand high and dry, a fitting legacy to the role of rail transportation in Birmingham’s once prosperous iron and steel industry.
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Aside from the infrastructure investment, Costas said the Legislature supported local transportation plans, notably the double tracking of the South Shore Line between Gary and Michigan City.
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For nearly a century, nobody has found a way to make airships or zeppelins an effective means of transportation.
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Take transportation, which employs one in seven Americans.
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The world’s gathering environmental problems are deeply interrelated, and they can’t be effectively addressed in isolation: water here, energy there, transportation somewhere else,
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First Known Use of transportation
1540
TRANSPORTATION Defined for English Language Learners
transportation
playDefinition of transportation for English Language Learners
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: the act or process of moving people or things from one place to another
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: a way of traveling from one place to another place
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: a system for moving passengers or goods from one place to another
TRANSPORTATION Defined for Kids
transportation
playDefinition of transportation for Students
1 : an act, instance, or means of carrying people or goods from one place to another or of being carried from one place to another
2 : public carrying of passengers or goods especially as a business
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