transportation

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act or an instance of transporting.
2. n. The state of being transported.
3. n. A means of conveyance.
4. n. The business of conveying passengers or goods.
5. n. A charge for public conveyance; fare.
6. n. Deportation to a penal colony.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In geology, the movement of land-waste by rivers, glaciers, waves, currents, wind, etc.
2. n. Railway tickets or other permits for traveling.
3. n. The act of transporting, or conveying from one place to another, or the state of being so transported; carriage; conveyance; transmission.
4. n. The removal or banishment, for a specified term, of a convict to a penal settlement in another country. The transportation of persons convicted of crime prevails in France and Russia, but in Great Britain it is now superseded by penal servitude. See penal.
5. n. Transport; ecstasy; rapture.
6. n. Means of transporting, as wagons or other vehicles; also, the cost of traveling.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
2. n. Deportation to a penal colony.
3. n. A means of conveyance.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.
2. n. Transport; ecstasy.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the act of expelling a person from their native land
2. n. the act of moving something from one location to another
3. n. the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
4. n. the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
5. n. a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
6. n. the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966