Transportation
n. 1. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported;
carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.
To provide a vessel for their transportation.
- Sir H. Wotton.
2. Transport; ecstasy.
Noun
1. transportation - a facility consisting of the means and equipment
necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
Synonyms: transportation system, transit
2. transportation - the act of transporting something from one location
to another
Synonyms: transfer, transferral, conveyance
3. transportation - the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
Synonyms: fare
4. Transportation - the United States federal department that institutes
and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
Synonyms: Department of Transportation, DoT
5. transportation - the commercial enterprise of transporting goods
and materials
Synonyms: shipping, transport
6. 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"
Synonyms: deportation, expatriation, exile
TRANSPORTATION, punishment. In the English law, this punishment
is inflicted by virtue of sundry statutes; it was unknown to the
common law. 2 H. Bl. 223. It is a part of the judgment or sentence
of the court, that the party shall be transported or sent into exile.
1 Ch. Cr. Law, 789 to 796: Princ. of Pen. Law, c. 4 Sec. 2.
Related
Words
air express, airfreight, airlift, asportation, banishment, bearing,
blackballing, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, conveyance, defrocking,
degradation, demotion, depluming, deportation, deprivation, disbarment,
disfellowship, displuming, drayage, exclusion, excommunication,
exile, expatriation, expressage, extradition, ferriage, freight,
freightage, fugitation, haulage, hauling, lighterage, lugging, moving,
ostracism, ostracization, outlawing, outlawry, packing, portage,
porterage, railway express, relegation, rustication, shipment, shipping,
stripping, telpherage, toting, transit, transport, transporting,
transshipment, truckage, unfrocking, waft, waftage, wagonage air
express, airfreight, airlift, asportation, banishment, bearing,
blackballing, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, conveyance, defrocking,
degradation, demotion, depluming, deportation, deprivation, disbarment,
disfellowship, displuming, drayage, exclusion, excommunication,
exile, expatriation, expressage, extradition, ferriage, freight,
freightage, fugitation, haulage, hauling, lighterage, lugging, moving,
ostracism, ostracization, outlawing, outlawry, packing, portage,
porterage, railway express, relegation, rustication, shipment, shipping,
stripping, telpherage, toting, transit, transport, transporting,
transshipment, truckage, unfrocking, waft, waftage, wagonage air
express, airfreight, airlift, asportation, banishment, bearing,
blackballing, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, conveyance, defrocking,
degradation, demotion, depluming, deportation, deprivation, disbarment,
disfellowship, displuming, drayage, exclusion, excommunication,
exile, expatriation, expressage, extradition, ferriage, freight,
freightage, fugitation, haulage, hauling, lighterage, lugging, moving,
ostracism, ostracization, outlawing, outlawry, packing, portage,
porterage, railway express, relegation, rustication, shipment, shipping,
stripping, telpherage, toting, transit, transport, transporting,
transshipment, truckage, unfrocking, waft, waftage, wagonage |
