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Grammar : Noun
Spell : trans-per-tey-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˌtræns pərˈteɪ ʃən

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Définition of transportation

Origin :
  • 1530s, "act of transporting," noun of action from transport (v.). Middle English used verbal noun transporting (early 15c.). In the sense of "means of conveyance" it is first recorded 1853.
  • noun conveyance
Example sentences :
  • They were distributed among the captains of the fleet for transportation to Athens.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • Two months later Florent was again sentenced to transportation.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • The hay-press makes storage and transportation easier and cheaper.
  • Extract from : « The Age of Invention » by Holland Thompson
  • Tell Wilson to make out your transportation, so that you can start for your regiment tomorrow.
  • Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) » by John McElroy
  • Transportation, they tell me, has already nearly got rid of the gypsies.
  • Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
  • If you have seduced him here, and robbed him of it, it's transportation.
  • Extract from : « Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 » by Various
  • As in the trip across the Plains, we must provide our own transportation.
  • Extract from : « Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail » by Ezra Meeker
  • "And these are the thanks I get for furnishing some means of transportation," said Roy resentfully.
  • Extract from : « Rival Pitchers of Oakdale » by Morgan Scott
  • Fish is plentiful in Alaska; it is transportation that costs.
  • Extract from : « Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled » by Hudson Stuck
  • We were scant of provisions, scant of transportation, scant of ammunition.
  • Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

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