Word Finder - transportation

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The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.

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We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation.

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Deportation to a penal colony.

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Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.

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A means of conveyance.

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Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.

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A ticket or fare.

Independent carriers cannot run trains over the same line and underbid one another in offering transportation services.

St Joseph is a transportation centre of great importance.

But isolation and lack of transportation facilities have retarded its development.

If she had a method of transportation, that would be an alternative.

I'll arrange the transportation.

The invention of the railroad was a milestone in the history of transportation.

Wichita is a transportation centre for the rich agricultural region surrounding it, and is an important market for broom-corn.

Its trade is not large, however, owing to the costs of transportation.

Delaware has good facilities for transportation.

These prisons received all sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, the long-term convicts going to the bagnes (the great convict prisons at the arsenals of Rochefort, Brest and Toulon), while in 1851 transportation to penal colonies was adopted.

Transportation facilities by water are afforded by the Mississippi river.

Many people are in need of transportation and sometimes there are not enough vehicles to get everyone where they need to go when they need to go.

Types of searchable caregivers include transportation, companionships, medical or hospice care.

For example, some retirement communities offer local transportation for their residents.

Before anything was done, the need of improved means of transportation between Philadelphia and the anthracite coal-fields became the more pressing.

Whether you ride a bicycle for pleasure or as an alternative mode of transportation, signing up for one of the many bicycle safety programs offered at local, state and federal levels will help to keep you safe when cycling.

For several years Wakefield continued to direct the New Zealand Company, fighting its battles with the colonial office and the missionary interest, and secretly inspiring and guiding many parliamentary committees on colonial subjects, especially on the abolition of transportation.

In both states, the Commissions have power over electric railways and local public utilities furnishing heat, light and power, as well as over steam railway transportation, and the Wisconsin Commission also has control over telephone companies.

The vehicles used for the transportation of goods are known as goods wagons or trucks in Great Britain, and as freight cars in America.

The lack of transportation facilities has been partly relieved by the construction of a branch of the Southern Pacific (American) from Nogales southward to Guaymas and the Sinaloa frontier, from which it has been extended to Mazatlan.

In mining regions where 'water transportation is interrupted during certain months of the year the mineral must be stored underground, or in great stock-piles on the surface.

The best-known lettres de cachet, however, were those which may be called penal, by which the king sentenced a subject without trial and without an opportunity of defence to imprisonment in a state prison or an ordinary gaol, confinement in a convent or a hospital, transportation to the colonies, or relegation to a given place within the realm.

Despite the increase in railway facilities, the waterways remain important factors in the transportation of the country.

So great, however, is the desire to shorten the time and distance necessary for the transportation of grain from Lake Superior to Montreal that an increasing quantity is taken by water as far as the Lake Huron and Georgian Bay ports, and thence by rail to Montreal.

The canal system of Canada, linking together the great natural waterways, is also of much present and prospective importance in cheapening the transportation of agricultural produce.

Meanwhile, till adequate means of transportation were provided, it was seen that city and prairie alike must wait for any large inflow of population.

The application of electricity to purposes of manufacture and transportation made the waterfalls and rapids in which the country abounds the source of an almost unlimited supply of energy capable of easy distribution for industrial purposes over wide areas.

As regards the British farmer, it does not appear as if he had improved his position; for he has to send his wheat to greater distances, owing to the collapse of many country millers or their removal to the seaboard, while railway rates have fallen only to a very small extent; again the farmer's wheat is worth only half of what it was formerly; it may be said that the British farmer has to give up one bushel in nine to the railway company for the purpose of transportation, whereas in the 'seventies he gave up one in eighteen only.

In the 1907 state legislature a county local option bill was passed in February, and immediately afterward the Sherrod anti-shipping bill was enacted forbidding the acceptance of liquors for shipment, transportation or delivery to prohibition districts, and penalising the soliciting of orders for liquor in "dry" districts with a punishment of $500 fine and six months' imprisonment with hard labour.

Means of transportation for these products are furnished by the rivers, which are generally navigable as far north as the " fall line " passing through Augusta, Milledgeville, Macon and Columbus; by ocean steamship lines which have piers at St Mary's, Brunswick, Darien and Savannah; and by railways whose mileage in January 1909 was 6,871.8 m.

There are seven directorias, or boards, under the prefect, each one assigned to a special field of work, chief among which are education, health and public assistance, public works and transportation, and finance.

Almost all the great steamship transportation lines of the Great Lakes have an eastern terminus at Buffalo, which thus has direct passenger and freight connexion with Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee and the "Head of the Lakes" (Duluth-Superior).

The volunteers organized as the Educational Commission for Freedmen (afterward the New England Freedmen's Aid Society), and the government granted them transportation, subsistence and quarters, and paid them small salaries.

It is served by the Chicago & North-Western, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways, and by steamboats on the Fox river, by means of which it meets lake transportation at De Pere and Green Bay.

But the greatest improvement affecting transportation is the construction of a safe and deep harbour.

Commerce.-Ecuador has no merchant marine beyond a few small vessels engaged in the coastwise traffic, some eighteen or twenty river steamers on the Guayas and its tributaries, and a number of steam launches, towboats and various descriptions of barges engaged in the transportation of produce and goods on the rivers.

The fertility of the soil, the mineral wealth and the transportation facilities have given Illinois a vast economic development.

In 1900 more than seven-tenths of the inhabitants in gainful occupations were engaged in agriculture (25.6%), manufactures and mechanical pursuits (26.7%), and trade and transportation (22%).

The growth of manufacturing in Illinois during the last half of the 19th century, due largely to the development of her exceptional transportation facilities, was the most rapid and remarkable in the industrial history of the United States.

The first transportation problem was to connect Lake Michigan and the Mississippi river; this was accomplished by building the Illinois & Michigan canal to La Salle, at the head of the navigation on the Illinois river, a work which was begun in 1836 and completed in 1848 under the auspices of the state.

He also advised the use of Federal troops to quell the disturbances in the city, on the ground that the government must prevent interference with its mails and with the general railway transportation between the states.

There he became interested in the problem of passenger transportation.

Sedalia is served by the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway systems, and is a transportation centre with good facilities.

It will join a few others in cold storage to await transportation to the show.

Ann is a member of the London Nuclear Trains Working Group, opposing the transportation of nuclear waste through Bromley Boro.

Carpooling and using mass transportation, such as buses and trains, reduces the amount of greenhouse gas released into the environment.

If you wish to book transportation to Disney Cruise Lines on your own that option is available.

If you decide to book flights outside the Disney transportation options, it is a good idea to contact Disney Cruise Lines to make ground transfer arrangements to get you from the airport to the terminal.

If you decide all is in good order, then all that's left is to pay your fees and arrange your new pup's transportation.

However, circumstances sometimes call for a pet to travel by public transportation, such as an airplane.