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The term 'transportation' is from the word 'transport' - to move from place to place by any method but frequently by some form of non-human transport: motor vehicle, ship, horse, and so on.
'Transport' came into the English language from Old French transporter - to move or carry (across) - in the fourteenth century; the sense of to be carried away (with emotion) dates from the sixteenth century.
The noun 'transportation' - the activity of moving something, or a method of traveling - is formed by adding the Latin suffix atio - in this sense, a process, or action - to 'transport'.
Some examples of the use of 'transportation' are:
- We need to take transportation costs into account when calculating prices.
- Let them know the goods are in transportation now.
- The city's public transportation system is under review.
- They're in the refrigerated transportation industry.
and, in the historical sense of deportation to an offshore penal colony:
- The sentence for armed robbery could be transportation for life.
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Abbreviate the word transportation?
Suffix for the word transportation is "ation"
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Which word did not originate in France?
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In France
What does the word originate from?
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