transportation

Everyday

1. Moving people or goods from one place to another. tree →
2. A way of travelling or carrying things: cars, buses, trains, planes, ships. tree →
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 →

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 →
• Many convicts were sentenced to transportation to Australia. tree →
• The river's transportation of sand builds up the beach. tree →
• The school organises transportation for the trip. tree →
• Bikes are a healthy kind of transportation. tree →
• Transportation to Australia could last fourteen years or for life. tree →

Note

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