Transportation meaning

What does “transportation” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“transportation” is a noun with 6 meanings. Its most common meaning is: a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods.

transportation

noun

  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

    Synonymsfare
  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

    “men in exile dream of hope”

    “his deportation to a penal colony”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University