Transportation \Trans`por*ta"tion\, n. [L. transportatio: cf. F.
   transportation.]
   1. The act of transporting, or the state of being
      transported; carriage from one place to another; removal;
      conveyance.
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            To provide a vessel for their transportation. --Sir
                                                  H. Wotton.
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   2. Transport; ecstasy. [R.] --South.
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	transportation
    n 1: a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary
         for the movement of passengers or goods [syn:
         transportation system, transportation, transit]
    2: the act of moving something from one location to another
       [syn: transportation, transport, transfer,
       transferral, conveyance]
    3: the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance [syn:
       fare, transportation]
    4: the United States federal department that institutes and
       coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
       [syn: Department of Transportation, Transportation,
       DoT]
    5: the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials [syn:
       transportation, shipping, transport]
    6: 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" [syn: exile, deportation,
       expatriation, transportation]

	

	61 Moby Thesaurus words for "transportation":
   air express, airfreight, airlift, asportation, banishment, bearing,
   blackballing, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, conveyance,
   defrocking, degradation, demotion, depluming, deportation,
   deprivation, disbarment, disfellowship, displuming, drayage,
   exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expressage,
   extradition, ferriage, freight, freightage, fugitation, haulage,
   hauling, lighterage, lugging, moving, ostracism, ostracization,
   outlawing, outlawry, packing, portage, porterage, railway express,
   relegation, rustication, shipment, shipping, stripping, telpherage,
   toting, transit, transport, transporting, transshipment, truckage,
   unfrocking, waft, waftage, wagonage

	

	TRANSPORTATION, punishment. In the English law, this punishment is inflicted 
by virtue of sundry statutes; it was unknown to the common law. 2 H. Bl. 
223. It is a part of the judgment or sentence of the court, that the party 
shall be transported or sent into exile. 1 Ch. Cr. Law, 789 to 796: Princ. 
of Pen. Law, c. 4 Sec. 2.