TRANSPORTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Transportation mean? 

• TRANSPORTATION (noun)
  The noun TRANSPORTATION has 6 senses:

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

2. the act of moving something from one location to another

3. the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance

4. the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

5. the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

6. the act of expelling a person from their native land

  Familiarity information: TRANSPORTATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSPORTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

transit; transportation; transportation system

Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):

facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)

Meronyms (parts of "transportation"):

airfield; field; flying field; landing field (a place where planes take off and land)

way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)

depot; terminal; terminus (station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods)

public transport (conveyance for passengers or mail or freight)

line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)

bridge; span (a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transportation"):

air transportation system (a transportation system for moving passengers or goods by air)

highway system (a transportation system consisting of roads for motor transport)

public transit (a public transportation system for moving passengers)

short line (a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances)

telferage; telpherage (a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity)

Holonyms ("transportation" is a part of...):

base; infrastructure (the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area)

Derivation:

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of moving something from one location to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation

Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):

movement (the act of changing the location of something)

Meronyms (parts of "transportation"):

pickup (the act of taking aboard passengers or freight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transportation"):

transshipment (the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment)

airlift; lift (transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable))

connection; connexion (shifting from one form of transportation to another)

bringing; delivery (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail))

drive (the act of driving a herd of animals overland)

carry (the act of carrying something)

lighterage (the transportation of goods on a lighter)

relocation; resettlement (the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind))

teleportation (a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another)

Derivation:

transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

fare; transportation

Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):

charge (the price charged for some article or service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transportation"):

airfare (the fare charged for traveling by airplane)

bus fare; carfare (the fare charged for riding a bus or streetcar)

cab fare; taxi fare (the fare charged for riding in a taxicab)

train fare (the fare charged for traveling by train)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Transportation; DoT; Transportation

Hypernyms ("Transportation" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Transportation"):

FAA; Federal Aviation Administration (an agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation)

Transportation Security Administration; TSA (an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel)

U. S. Coast Guard; United States Coast Guard; US Coast Guard (an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shipping; transport; transportation

Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Domain member category:

off-line (not on a regular route of a transportation system)

on-line; online (on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transportation"):

hauling; truckage; trucking (the activity of transporting goods by truck)

ferry; ferrying (transport by boat or aircraft)

express; expressage (rapid transport of goods)

freight; freightage (transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates)

navigation (ship traffic)

air transport; air transportation (transportation by air)

Holonyms ("transportation" is a part of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Derivation:

transport (transport commercially)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The act of expelling a person from their native land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation

Context example:

the sentence was one of transportation for life

Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):

banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)

Instance hyponyms:

Babylonian Captivity (the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC)

 Context examples 

Mercury, the planet of communication and transportation, will retrograde from February 16 to March 9.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was no course left the party but to wait for chance transportation.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

An inherited autosomal recessive disorder characterized by the presence of mild jaundice due to abnormalities in the bilirubin transportation from the liver parenchyma to the biliary system.

(Dubin-Johnson Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Have someone else drive you or take public transportation when you cannot drive.

(Impaired Driving, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

The generated hydrogen could serve as both a transportation fuel and a critical feedstock for fertilizer and chemical production.

(Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production, National Science Foundation)

We're not going to get away from plastic — in my opinion, it's very useful, in medicine, transportation and construction.

(Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Finds, VOA)

Riding a bicycle for transportation or recreation.

(Bicycling, NCI Thesaurus)

It was like asking, as a favour, to be sentenced to transportation from Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Device problems traced back to how the device was shipped (some examples may include the temperature of the shipping compartment or the method of transportation).

(Device Shipping Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC - Traveling out of the neighborhood, driving, or arranging to take public transportation.

(FAQ-NACC Version - Travel, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)