(~s, ~ing ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Transition is the process in which something changes from one state to another.
The ~ to a multi-party democracy is proving to be difficult.
...a period of ~.
N-VAR
2.
If someone ~s from one state or activity to another, they move gradually from one to the other.
Most of the discussion was on what needed to be done now as we ~ed from the security issues to the challenging economic issues...
There was a significant decline in the size of the business as the company ~ed to an intellectual property company.
VERB: V from n, V to n, also V n