transportation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   Deportation to a penal colony.

   Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.

3. 3
   noun

   A means of conveyance.

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

4. 4
   noun

   A ticket or fare.

   Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?" (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.) Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."

5. 5
   noun

   the act of expelling a person from their native land

6. 6
   noun

   the act of moving something from one location to another

7. 7
   noun

   the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

From transport + -ation.