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say it: tran-spur-TAY-shuhn
transportation is a noun meaning "a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods". It is pronounced /ˌtɹænspɚˈteɪʃən/ — tran-spur-TAY-shuhn. It carries 6 recorded senses.
a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
the act of moving something from one location to another
the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
the act of expelling a person from their native land
“men in exile dream of hope”
“his deportation to a penal colony”
“the expatriation of wealthy farmers”
“the sentence was one of transportation for life”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transportation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.