transportation
nounUK /tɹænspɔːˈteɪʃən/ · US /tɹænspɚˈteɪʃən/
Etymology From transport + -ation.
1
US, Usually 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
Historical, Usually Deportation to a penal colony.
- Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.
- Redpath was sentenced to transportation for life, and his assets, amounting to over £25,000, went to reduce the sum that the Great Northern had to find.1957 February 23, Michael Robbins, “The Redpath Frauds on the Great Northern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 132:
3
US, Usually A means of conveyance.
- Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.
4
US, Usually 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."1898, Willa Cather, The Westbound Train:
- Derived terms
- antitransportation, biotransportation, cotransportation, evapotransportation, hydrotransportation, intelligent transportation system, mass transportation, means of transportation, nontransportation, pretransportation, public transportation, teleportation, teletransportation, transportational, transportation car, transportation network, transportation network vehicle service, transportation safety board