(~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Transport refers to any vehicle that you can travel in or carry goods in. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use ~ation )
Have you got your own ~?...
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2.
Transport is a system for taking people or goods from one place to another, for example using buses or trains. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use ~ation )
The extra money could be spent on improving public ~...
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3.
Transport is the activity of taking goods or people from one place to another in a vehicle. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use ~ation )
Local production virtually eliminates ~ costs.
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4.
To ~ people or goods somewhere is to take them from one place to another in a vehicle.
There’s no petrol, so it’s very difficult to ~ goods...
They use tankers to ~ the oil to Los Angeles...
VERB: V n, V n prep/adv
5.
If you say that you are ~ed to another place or time, you mean that something causes you to feel that you are living in the other place or at the other time. (mainly LITERARY)
Dr Drummond felt that he had been ~ed into a world that rivalled the Arabian Nights...
This delightful musical comedy ~s the audience to the innocent days of 1950s America.
VERB: be V-ed prep/adv, V n prep/adv