[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

transportation \trans`porta"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.
      1913 webster

            to provide a vessel for their transportation. --sir
                                                  h. wotton.
      1913 webster

   2. transport; ecstasy. r. --south.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

transportation
     n 1: a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary
          for the movement of passengers or goods syn: transportation
          system, transit
     2: the act of transporting something from one location to
        another syn: transfer, transferral, conveyance
     3: the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance syn: fare
     4: the united states federal department that institutes and
        coordinates national transportation programs; created in
        1966 syn: department of transportation, dot
     5: the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and
        materials syn: 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
see also:
transportation system transit transfer transferral conveyance fare 
department of transportation dot shipping transport exile 
deportation expatriation 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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. 

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