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noun

transportation

CEFR B1

a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

In a sentence

Six example sentences with transportation, each labelled with its topic.

  • Cheap transportation reshaped the region's economy, letting small towns ship strawberries to cities four hundred miles away.

    Economics

  • The competition asked for a transportation hub where buses, trams, and bicycles would share one weatherproof concourse.

    Architecture

  • Voters approved the bond because rural counties were promised transportation that did not depend on a single daily bus.

    Politics

  • Public transportation carries a third of the city's commuters, and each full tram takes fifty cars off the ring road.

    Environment

  • The island's only transportation is a ferry twice a day and a fleet of bicycles that the hostel rents by the hour.

    Travel

  • The retailer runs its own transportation, a fleet of two hundred trucks, rather than depend on carriers during the holidays.

    Business

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