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UK
/tɹænspɔːtˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˌtɹænspɝˈteɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌtɹænspɝˈteɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
How To Use Transportation In A Sentence
- Americans are looking into alternative modes of transportation such as trolleys, trains, subways, and buses, which all showed a ridership increase, with the largest growth in major cities. As gas prices increase, consumption decreases
- Transportation vascular tissue is the main component.
- Note:From May 1, 2006, public transit tickets were sold by card swiping, so passenger transportation volume is uncomparable with that in 2005.
- Many companies will be involved in the project from construction contractors to drillers to transportation firms.
- Tell Transportation I want the largest vehicle they have with four-wheel drive, preferably a step-up maxi-van. CHAINS OF COMMAND
- Eric Widstrand, City Traffic Engineer for the Seattle Department of Transportation, told the newspaper that the hula hoop is a sticker (which is graffiti) that has been applied to the sign to make it look like the pedestrian is hula-hooping. Hooping.org | Blog | Hula Hoop Pedestrian-Crossing Sign Confuses Some
- According to Lawrence Will, ‘floods and freezes, wild hogs and coons, muck fires, gnats and mosquitoes, slow transportation and greedy New York buyers, all these discouraged many.’
- phoresy - the now-common behavior of one animal using a completely different species for transportation - has been around for at least 50 million years in these mites. Wired Top Stories
- The transportation system in this island depended heavily on cattle.
- Later, an aerial tramway was built to increase the efficiency of the transportation.