transportation   (Sound)

The noun transportation has 6 senses

• transportation system, transportation, transit -- (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods)


• transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance -- (the act of moving something from one location to another)


• fare, transportation -- (the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance)


• Department of Transportation, Transportation, DoT -- (the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966)


• transportation, shipping, transport -- (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)


• exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation -- (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")