transport

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The system or vehicles used for carrying people or goods from one place to another.

   Public transport in the city is cheap and reliable.

2. 2
   verb

   To carry people or goods from one place to another.

   The goods are transported by truck across the country.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of carrying people or goods from one place to another.

   The transport of fresh food requires refrigerated trucks.

From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) + port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”).

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