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# transportation

noun (transportation – uncountable)

«transportation» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Moving people or goods from one place to another. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#m1)
2. A way of travelling or carrying things: cars, buses, trains, planes, ships. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#m2)
3. (history) Sending convicts from Britain and Ireland to live and work far away, especially to Australia (1788–1868) and earlier to America, as a punishment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#m3)

### In the lessons

In the USA «transportation» is the everyday word; in the UK and Australia people more often say «transport». In history lessons, transportation of convicts founded Australian colonies; in The Wind in the Willows Toad's crimes might have earned harsh punishments. In science and geography: transportation is also the movement of rock and soil by rivers, wind and ice.

### Examples

- Public transportation includes buses and trains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#x1)
- Many convicts were sentenced to transportation to Australia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#x2)
- The river's transportation of sand builds up the beach. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#x3)
- The school organises transportation for the trip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#x4)
- Bikes are a healthy kind of transportation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#x5)
- Transportation to Australia could last fourteen years or for life. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#x6)

### Note

Uncountable. UK usage: «transport». Verb: transport. In geography, transportation is the middle stage: erosion, transportation, deposition.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «transportation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«transportation» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/transportation.html) on Mova free.