Definition: 1. A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods. 2. The act of transporting something from one location to another. 3. The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance. 4. The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials. 5. The act of expelling a person from their native land.
Use 'transportation' in a sentence:
1. Walking was the first transportation.
2. Part of it is communication; part of it is transportation.
3. It's my favourite type of transportation.
4. I'll start with transportation.
5. The transportation issue is to be resolved by them.
6. Water transportation was outmoded by railroads and good pikes.
7. Transportation is convenient here.
8. Transportation becomes comfortable and easy.
9. And there isn't good public transportation from inner city Detroit to those suburban malls.
10. This year transportation prices rises 2.7%.
11. The machine is on transportation.
12. The fruit will not bear transportation to any great distance.
13. Part of it is communication ， part of it is transportation.
14. Railway transportation is the vanguard of the national economy.
15. The flat is near transportation.
16. A power failure created an emergency in traffic and transportation.
17. Transportation and communications are becoming easier day by day.
18. I love this transportation!
19. The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.
20. Good transportation is very important in winter.
21. We have to learn a song about transportation.
22. Please let us know if you need transportation to the airport.
23. The strawberries are kept in cold storage to prevent them from spoiling during transportation.
24. Campuses are usually accessible by public transportation.
25. Transportation was at a standstill.
26. People pay less for the public transportation, too.
27. This city, situated at the transportation hub between North and south, is a distribution centre for all kinds of important goods and materials.
28. New research on transportation biofuels is already under way.
29. We spend so much on transportation.
30. Transportation has conquered the vastness of the land and brought together people living thousands of kilometers apart.
31. The baggage was being rapidly stowed away for transportation.
32. The report exposes the disadvantages of the present transportation system.
33. Oxfam may also help with the transportation of refugees.
34. Oceans serve as the main arteries of transportation between continents.
35. The city is providing free transportation to the stadium from downtown.
36. Under modern conditions of communication and transportation, population adjustment is maintained by a ceaseless process of individual migrations.
37. They've also slashed state subsidies to utilities and transportation.
38. The 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage private space vehicles and services, prohibits the transportation secretary ( and thereby the FAA) from regulating the design or operation of private spacecraft, unless they have resulted in a serious or fatal injury to crew or passengers.
39. I presume that this price includes all transportation and accomodation fees.
40. I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.
41. Cars are prohibited, so transportation is by electric cart or by horse and buggy.
42. The strawberries are kept in cold storage to prevent them spoiling during transportation.
43. The new museum must be accessible by public transportation.
44. Relief agencies say the immediate problem is not a lack of food, but transportation.
45. Now the transportation in Shaoyang is very convenient.
46. Are you for or against public transportation?
47. The transportation operation will be spun off into a separate company.
48. There is, he said, a lack of an integrated national transportation policy.
49. I will organize transportation.
50. The government continued to believe it should give free rein to the private sector in transportation.
51. Normally, the transportation system in Paris carries 950,000 passengers a day.
