transportation

noun
trans·por·ta·tion
/tɹænspɔːˈteɪʃən/

to a penal colony.

Example

“Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.”

Other meanings

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
“We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation.”
A means of conveyance.
“Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.”

Synonyms

transit

A kind of

facility

Kinds of transportation

air transportation system
public transit

Related words

antitransportation
biotransportation
cotransportation
evapotransportation
hydrotransportation
nontransportation
pretransportation
teleportation
teletransportation
transportational
mass transportation
means of transportation

Example sentences

“What form of public transportation do you prefer?”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“People here depend on public transportation.”
Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “transportation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.