transportnoun
uk/ˈtræn.spɔːt/us/ˈtræn.spɔːrt/transport noun (GOODS/PEOPLE)
B2 [ U ] the movement of people or goods from one place to another:
B1 [ U ] UK US transportation a system of vehicles, such as buses, trains, aircraft, etc. for getting from one place to another:
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- The city's transport system is one of the most efficient in Europe.
- The tour operator will arrange transport and plan your itinerary.
- Travelling by train is still one of the safest methods of transport.
- If you think that these transport problems can be solved by building more roads, you completely misunderstand the nature of the problem.
- Please let the organizers know if you're able to offer transport to or from the campsite for this year's Cub camp.
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Travelling
- backpacking
- bum around (somewhere)
- catch
- connect
- cover
- cruise
- destination
- gad about/around (somewhere)
- gallivant
- have sth, will travel idiom
- override
- ply
- road
- roam
- tootle
- tourist class
- travel
- travelled
- voyage
- well travelled
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transport noun (FEELING)
extremely pleased or happy
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Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punch idiom
- be as high as a kite idiom
- be dancing in the streets idiom
- be floating on air idiom
- be full of the joys of spring idiom
- be in seventh heaven idiom
- breezy
- brighten
- contented
- dance
- delighted
- ecstatic
- elated
- incandescent
- jubilant
- jump for joy idiom
- light-hearted
- look/feel like a million dollars idiom
- loved up
- swoon
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transportverb [ T ]
uk/trænˈspɔːt/us/trænˈspɔːrt/transport verb [ T ] (GOODS/PEOPLE)
B2 to take goods or people from one place to another:
(in the past) to send a criminal to live in a country far away as a punishment:
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- The prisoners were transported under military escort.
- The emergency building is transported in individual modules, such as bedrooms and a kitchen, which are put together on site.
- Environmentalists argue that more goods should be transported by rail.
- The two prisoners were kept under restraint while they were transported between prisons.
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Transferring and transporting objects
- bearer
- bike
- borne
- bring
- budge
- bus
- call for sb
- drop
- ferry
- freight
- pick sb/sth up
- put sb down somewhere
- road haulage
- route
- spirit
- tear 1
- tear sb away
- tote
- transfer
- transportation
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transport verb [ T ] (FEELING)
literary If something transports you to a different time or place, it makes you feel as if you were in it:
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Remembering, reminding and reminders
- a blast from the past idiom
- aide-mémoire
- be engraved on sb's memory/mind idiom
- be etched on/in sb's memory idiom
- be your epitaph idiom
- echo
- imprint
- indelible
- jog sb's memory idiom
- keepsake
- let's see idiom
- pat
- recall
- retrospect
- ring a bell idiom
- shade
- souvenir
- stamped on sb's memory idiom
- stick in sb's mind/head/memory idiom
- take sb back
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