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# transportation

«transportation» in Mova's school dictionary: **Moving people or goods from one place to another** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (transportation – uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Moving people or goods from one place to another. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [From 1788 to 1868 Britain sent about 160,000 convicts on ships to Australia, a punishment called transportation, sometimes for quite small thefts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/84-gaols-magistrates-and-old-punishments-from-the-stocks-to-the-children-act-of-1908/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «transportation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transportation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.