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RELATED WORDS : air transportation air transportation system department of transportation ministry of transportation test secretary of transportation transportation company transportation secretary transportation security administration transportation system

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun transportation has 6 senses

• transportation(n = noun.artifact) transit, transportation system - a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods; Array
has parts: airfield, field, flying field, landing field, bridge, span, line, public transport, depot, terminal, terminus, way
has particulars: air transportation system, highway system, public transit, short line, telferage, telpherage
is a kind of facility, installation
is a part of base, infrastructure
Derived form verb transport₁

• transportation(n = noun.act) conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport - the act of moving something from one location to another; Array
is a kind of movement
has particulars: transshipment, airlift, lift, connection, connexion, bringing, delivery, drive, carry, lighterage, relocation, resettlement, teleportation
has parts: pickup
Derived form verb transport₂

• transportation(n = noun.possession) fare - the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance; Array
is a kind of charge
has particulars: airfare, bus fare, carfare, cab fare, taxi fare, train fare

• transportation(n = noun.group) department of transportation, dot - the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966; Array
is a kind of executive department
has parts: faa, federal aviation agency, transportation security administration, tsa, u. s. coast guard, united states coast guard, us coast guard

• transportation(n = noun.act) shipping, transport - the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials; Array
is a part of commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
is a kind of business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
has particulars: air transport, air transportation, navigation, hauling, truckage, trucking, freight, freightage, express, expressage, ferry, ferrying
Derived form verb transport₄

• transportation(n = noun.act) deportation, exile, expatriation - 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"
is a kind of banishment, proscription
has particulars: babylonian captivity

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THESAURUS

transportation

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

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transportation

Conversion

N conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation, evolution, sea change, change of state, assumption, naturalization, transportation, development, developing, conversion of currency, exchange of currency, exchange rate, bureau de change, chemistry, alchemy, progress, growth, lapse, flux, passage, transit, transition, transmigration, shifting, phase, conjugation, convertibility, crucible, alembic, caldron, retort, convert, pervert, renegade, apostate, converted into, convertible, resolvable into, transitional, naturalized, gradually, &c (slowly) 275 in transitu.

Punishment

N punishment, punition, chastisement, chastening, correction, castigation, discipline, infliction, trial, judgment, penalty, retribution, thunderbolt, Nemesis, requital, penology, retributive justice, lash, scaffold, imprisonment, transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism, penal servitude, hard labor, galleys, beating, flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear, blow, stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel, slap, slap in the face, wipe, douse, coup de grace, torture, rack, picket, picketing, dragonnade, capital punishment, execution, lethal injection, the gas chamber, hanging, electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines, decapitation, decollation, garrotte, garrotto, crucifixion, impalement, firing squad, martyrdom, auto-da-fe, noyade, happy dispatch, hara-kiri, seppuku, drinking the hemlock, punishing, penal, punitory, punitive, inflictive, castigatory, punished, Int, a la lanterne!, culpan paena premit comes, eating the bitter bread of banishment, gravis ira regum est semper, sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo.

Transference

N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.

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