I. noun
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a means of transport British English , a means of transportation American English (= a way of travelling, for example using a car, bus, bicycle etc )
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The tram is an efficient means of transport.
a transport café British English (= a cheap café beside a main road, mainly for lorry drivers )
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Many transport cafés serve great breakfasts.
a transport plane (= for carrying military equipment and soldiers )
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Heavily-laden transport planes can only land if there is a long runway.
labour/production/transport etc costs
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They had to pay £30,000 in legal costs.
mode of transport
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the most efficient mode of transport
public transport BrE, public transportation American English (= buses, trains etc )
public transport
transport cafe
Transport for London
transport plane
transport ship
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fluid
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On day 30, when the nematodes had been expelled from the gut, fluid transport was back to control values.
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In three other experiments fluid transport in the jejunum was nil.
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An attempt was made to determine if fluid transport varied between days 6 and 9.
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No effect on fluid transport was seen.
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In this report we investigated fluid transport in rats on days 6-9 or 11-14 after having been injected with the larvae.
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These findings agree with results reported by other researchers investigating fluid transport invivo.
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This study was designed to investigate further the relationship between inflammation and fluid transport in the small intestine of the rat.
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Nolla etal made a more thorough analysis, determining fluid transport on days 4, 6, 9, and 13.
local
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Transport For the reasons stated above, local transport is best, although this means being patient.
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She says it has made me think why is there no local transport readily available.
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Local post offices, local transport and local schools all have an important role to play in sustaining rural life.
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They were empowered to improve a range of local facilities from transport , credit, and insurance to health and education.
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Although no public transport service precisely covers the above itinerary in that form, local public transport makes the main points accessible.
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This was partly due to the weak local transport system and remoteness from urban influences.
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Assisting people in rural areas by making concessionary fares on local public transport widely available.
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Visitors to an area can help support local accommodation, transport and shops.
military
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Airbus Military Company is also expected this week to receive new orders from Europea governments for 218 A400M military transport aircraft.
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One such system in use on military transport planes costs $ 1. 6 million to install per aircraft.
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The only optimistic statement came from the third cadre of military transport , which had recently held two cell meetings.
private
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Lack of mobility may mean that older people with disabilities have to incur the cost of private transport in order to get about.
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Although private transport is also subject to government policy, it will be affected more slowly.
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However, the decline of public transport and the far-from-universal availability of private transport militates against this in practice.
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The motor car is private transport , available only to its owner and his immediate circle.
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This lessens professional isolation and becomes more possible with better roads and private transport .
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This close to Christmas, the wild West End was a militarized zone for private transport , even taxis.
public
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This form of public transport was first introduced into London by George Shillibeer in 1829.
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Investment and commitment are also needed to rebuild a viable public transport system.
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Buses and underground trains were so expensive that it was no longer accurate to regard them as public transport .
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The public transport safety target would not be achieved if single-pilot public transport operations by pilots over sixty were to be permitted.
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A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access.
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She takes little exercise, does not even walk much, and prefers to use the car or public transport .
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A minimal public transport service was in operation.
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In addition, public transport is much more subject to direct government policy and to the influence of political decisions.
■ NOUN
air
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Shipping, air transport , telephone and telegraph generally follow these routes.
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They lay it all on for us, he said. Air transport there and back guaranteed: same day.
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Suddenly, it was three years later and he was being carried off an Army Medical Corps Hercules air transport .
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For the more serious cases, there was air transport direct to base hospital, possibly hundreds of miles to the rear.
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Partly Competitive/Partly Regulated Industries Examples of this kind of industry are oil, aerospace, and air transport .
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The burgeoning air transport industry is presenting huge opportunities for enterprise.
aircraft
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The operation had not gone without hitches because adequate amphibious shipping and transport aircraft were not yet available.
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Airbus Military Company is also expected this week to receive new orders from Europea governments for 218 A400M military transport aircraft .
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There is an illusion of sitting high above the ground, almost as if it was a transport aircraft .
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Ventures have included flying tourists in transport aircraft .
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The Hercules transport aircraft is taking food and medicine to the besieged city of Sarajevo.
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Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes.
committee
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On Monday Darlington council's transport committee will be recommended to join the steering group and appoint a member.
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Darlington transport committee heard yesterday Mr Drury has to write frequently to parents asking them not to park near the entrance.
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The transport committee yesterday approved plans to build another boat.
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Yesterday's transport committee heard that a group is being set up to consider all aspects of rail travel in the North-East.
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Yesterday members of Darlington council's transport committee asked officers to think again about solving the problems of speed monitoring.
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The borough council's officers' traffic group have visited the site and a report was discussed at Monday's transport committee .
costs
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That is due not just to its comparatively high transport costs but to its low density.
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Trade will reduce welfare when transport costs are sufficiently close to prohibitive and increase it when they are sufficiently low.
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Any exports to the mainland have to bear high transport costs .
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In this chapter we approach the effects of transport costs in two ways.
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Integrating transport costs into a general equilibrium trade model is a messy affair even with constant returns and perfect competition.
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Neither do they take into account the additional disadvantages associated with increasing remoteness, such as transport costs .
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But this does not mean that lowering transport costs always raises welfare.
facility
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Do you want to be close to work or near transport facilities ?
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This project was promoted by Lord Egremont who wished to improve the condition of local agriculture by upgrading transport facilities .
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It also necessitates major improvements to public transport facilities .
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Or they may move because their old location is not well placed for transport facilities .
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The provision of freight handling and transport facilities at stations and other locations.
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The study aims to see how far problems of these areas are caused by inadequate transport facilities .
industry
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In the aerospace and transport industries , scientists and engineers use stoichiometric procedures to calculate fuel needs.
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It has already found uses in the transport industry .
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Until now, people working in the transport industry have tended to specialise in one aspect of the distribution business.
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Nationalization in the transport industries produced neither outstanding industrial relations nor employee commitment.
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Section 8 grants A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry .
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These losses are concentrated mainly in the transport industries , aIthough the numbers employed in personal services have also declined.
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The burgeoning air transport industry is presenting huge opportunities for enterprise.
infrastructure
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Mr Norris said standards applied in reaching the decision were the same as those used for all other major transport infrastructure projects.
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Provisions for cyclists will therefore require both the use of existing transport infrastructure and special facilities for cyclists.
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What Britain needs is serious government investment in public transport infrastructure-and lower fares.
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Other measures proposed include action to tackle traffic flows, and greater environmental considerations of spending on new transport infrastructure .
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That is why the Government are committed to an expanded roads programme and continuing major investment in our transport infrastructure .
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We support the location of new industrial and commercial developments in areas already well-served by good transport infrastructure and public transport.
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Over the next three years we are committed to the biggest investment in Britain's transport infrastructure in our history.
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But he also believes that some public money will be needed to develop the transport infrastructure necessary to complement development.
minister
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If you were transport minister , what would be your first action?
network
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So does the vulnerability of people at work, or moving through the transport networks , or living near large industrial plants.
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However, in order for this to be successful, the transport network of the area must be greatly improved.
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It formed urban areas, with their large pools of labour, shopping centres and transport networks .
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It was noted that private farms faced difficulties both in obtaining equipment and because of poor sales and transport networks .
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Almost 250 car parks across the province will be cleaned to help raise awareness of the litter problem in the transport network .
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Many have returned this time much earlier than usual, increasing the pressure on the overcrowded transport network .
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Mr Hunter's book is unusual in that this is the first volume of the history of a passenger transport network .
passenger
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Another is the fares paid on passenger transport .
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This research project examines the contrast between policies of integration and competition in the passenger transport industry.
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The subsidies mentioned in the table are mainly directed to housing, passenger transport and other economic affairs and services.
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Edinburgh's transport Railway histories are innumerable and road passenger transport histories are by no means rare.
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Mr Hunter's book is unusual in that this is the first volume of the history of a passenger transport network.
plane
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Other aircrew who died in the crash were ... In Lyneham, the transport planes were flying again today.
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The Marine Corps has 24 medium lift helicopters and 12 transport planes based at the station.
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It was designed to be a troop transport plane .
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There they would be loaded board three transport planes and flown to Tabriz.
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The camels had already seen two Junkers Tri-Motor transport planes come in, so they were not impressed by a Heinkel 111.
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An occasional transport plane came in to Berna airfield at Benghazi.
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They're taking in flour, grain and oil on Hercules transport planes .
policy
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Is our transport policy a waste of money?
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A transport policy which advocates private cars is not a policy which protects the environment.
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Most daring of all, he calls his plan a national transport policy .
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His initiatives in the field of transport policy have included a number of environmental strands.
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A Tory Transport Secretary pledging a national transport policy and oodles of public money for services that don't make money.
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Higher taxes on motorists should be only one measure in the context of a wider environment and transport policy .
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Has transport policy lost its way?
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Environmentalists now say that a completely new transport policy is essential to curb the effects vehicles are having on our planet.
rail
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The use of buses is becoming even more important in relation to rail transport .
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This is likely to provide a further obstacle to clear and stable objectives for rail transport .
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Programme contracts were also to govern the implementation of the 1987 rail transport plan.
road
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After much deliberation, six horse-drawn vehicles were selected to complement the existing road transport collections.
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Other agreements were concluded concerning border crossings, agricultural, scientific and cultural co-operation, recognition of educational qualifications and road transport .
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Section 8 grants A road haulage business seeking to expand need not restrict itself entirely to the road transport industry.
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This stopped after the bad winter of 1962-3 in the face of increasing competition from road transport on the new motorway system.
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The biggest growth in carbon dioxide emissions, implicated in the major problem confronting humanity's survival, is from road transport .
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Sea, inland waterway, and road transport came under the control of the Commissariat as well as the railways.
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Cost benefit analysis particularly in conjunction with road transport .
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Unless you specialize in this form of road transport , you are likely to fall outside the strict confines of statutory regulations.
service
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A minimal public transport service was in operation.
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Consider the benefits of introducing a health authority transport service .
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A single Minister will be given responsibility for coordinating London's transport services .
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Land freight transport services contributed £353m in 1991, an increase of more than £30m on 1990.
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Although no public transport service precisely covers the above itinerary in that form, local public transport makes the main points accessible.
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For example, routes will frequently be made economical only if adults are taken on the school transport services .
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By Road Carnlough is 35 miles from Belfast and is well connected with regular transport services .
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Public transport services clearly have direct benefits to those who use them but there are additional benefits of public transport provision.
spokesman
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Labour's transport spokesman , John Prescott, called on the Government to rescue the project by taking it into public control.
system
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Because they have money and because there is a good transport system , farmers also buy concentrated feedstuffs, called concentrates.
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Without the transport system the economy had to change.
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There have been two major approaches to characterising acid-base transport systems .
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People will remain disabled and dependent until they have access to the public transport systems which exclude them.
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Malabsorption of NaCl as a result of dysfunction of acid-base transport systems may be important in the pathogenesis of diarrhoeal disease.
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In fact, whilst some economic areas, especially the transport system , did improve in 1945, inflation grew worse.
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Female speaker I think we won't get a unified transport system .
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Neither the price nor any other characteristic of the transport system enters into it.
worker
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But transport workers say bus seats are safer as they are.
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And bringing an already faltering economy to its knees, transport workers brought the country to a virtual standstill in December.
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Unions supporting the motion included the transport workers , shop workers and public employees.
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Five explosions on buses in the early hours were carried out in support of a strike by public transport workers .
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A strike of transport workers in Krakow spread to other cities on Nov. 16.
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Many councillors, moreover, are builders, businessmen, transport workers , accountants and so forth who may have appropriate specialist knowledge.
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There are no regulations which limit the hours ships' crews work, unlike land transport workers .
■ VERB
improve
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They were keen to combat acid rain, freeze carbon dioxide emissions and improve public transport .
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For example, the Docklands Light Railway has improved public transport within a traditionally isolated part of London.
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Why not spend some of that money on improving public transport schemes - more energy efficient, safer and less polluting?
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Wearing his transport hat, Mr Prescott came up with several strategies for improving public transport and taking cars off the road.
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We will improve public transport , reduce traffic congestion, and encourage pedestrianisation and cycling schemes.
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We will support rural schools and improve public transport .
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The money will go towards improving transport , cleaning up the environment and creating jobs.
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We need more money to improve transport in London, and provide jobs where people need them.
provide
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The best policies will also provide transport to another resort if yours has insufficient snow.
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We will tackle the problem of congestion and environmental damage by enabling local authorities to provide better quality transport .
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Two of the rigs were to provide transport for the ordinary sect members, after their release.
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Mr Brown will draw up a multimillion-pound scheme to provide subsidised transport for people who find work.
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In addition, evidence has been provided for an active transport mechanism in the human intestinal mucosa.
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The Government has offered to provide transport and care for sixty children in need of treatment.
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They provided transport whenever we needed it, although sometimes it arrived a bit late!
use
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Both Mancetter and Oxfordshire are well inland for convenient harbours, but this may not have prevented them from using water-borne transport .
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In fact, bicycles were used for serious transport of goods.
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Passengers Canals were used not only for transport of goods but also for ferrying passengers and for the occasional pleasure trip.
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They usually walk, or, if the distance is far, use public transport .
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Husqvarna reckons the bikes could even be used as daily transport .
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In mountain areas use motorised transport sparingly and park considerately.
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Caught by surprise, we used whatever means of transport were available.
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Building the waterways Since very early times the rivers of Britain have been used for water transport .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Carrying goods by ship reduces transportation costs.
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Critics have pointed to the lack of transport links to the new attraction.
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The government is planning to tighten up regulations governing the transport of toxic waste.
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The price is $40, which includes transportation to the game and refreshments.
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We need more investment in natural gas distribution and transportation.
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After much deliberation, six horse-drawn vehicles were selected to complement the existing road transport collections.
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For these smaller cities, less expensive and more modestly scaled public transport and traffic restraint policies are more appropriate.
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It would be bad for public transport and for congestion.
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Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport .
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There is an illusion of sitting high above the ground, almost as if it was a transport aircraft.
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There the idea of parallel transport was found to be helpful.
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This suggests that the results obtained indeed reflect epithelial transport .
II. verb
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■ NOUN
goods
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Our aim is to transport goods from site to site so that requirements are fulfilled from the stocks available at other sites.
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Artix of Peterlee, vehicle to transport goods .
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He need not, however, transport the goods but can wait for the trader to come and collect them.
material
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Blue Circle of Eastgate, vehicles to transport materials .
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The procuticle is probably secreted around them and they may also transport material to the outer procuticle and epicuticle.
plane
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Non-local workers were transported by plane and housed in large, specially built camps or in adjacent accommodation ships.
rail
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Until after the 1939-45 war, nearly all the country's milk was transported by rail .
road
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You know and I know what 100 planes can do to troops, to towns and to transport on roads .
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From here the components of the Hercules will be transported by road to the Museum's storage facility.
sea
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Norman ore was to have been smelted there with Ruhr coal, transported cheaply by sea .
ship
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But all that changed when the Cali cartel switched tactics and started relying more on ships and trucks to transport drugs.
water
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The ironwork was cast in Dudley by Benjamin Gibbon and transported by water , eventually reaching the banks of the Stroudwater canal.
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The number of trips that can be expected for a spacecraft that transports water back from an asteroid is difficult to estimate.
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Elsewhere, railway lines tapped more effectively crops which had formerly been transported on water , by animals, or by porters.
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As the base grows, the cost of transporting the necessary water , oxygen, and food becomes ever more prohibitive.
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All three have within their stems strong woody vessels to transport the water absorbed by their roots.
world
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.
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As you walk the hallways, with their institutional floors and smudged walls, you can be transported half way around the world .
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At the mention of the name Disraeli, Mark had been transported into a world of his own.
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It was a magic broom to transport me to another world , from poverty to riches.
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He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon.
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Ecstasy is a flight of the mind in which the mystic describes himself as being transported to another world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Raw materials were transported to Phoenix from the reservations.
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The company transports meat across the country in refrigerated containers.
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The incident raised concerns about the safety and security of nuclear weapons being transported through Europe.
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The plane is used for transporting military personnel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, while being transported by wind, it will have been exposed to sunlight for a considerable time prior to deposition.
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An ambulance service volunteered its equipment to transport a severely crippled man home for weekends.
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He wants to sit next to her while facing a big screen and being transported by big-budget suspense or mayhem.
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It took a hundred and fifty lorries to transport it to its home in Swindon.
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Radiation is released during the handling and treatment of radioactive materials and as they are transported to and from nuclear sites.
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The rest we had to transport up to the second and fourth floors, up steep, dark steps!
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To become a reality, electronic commerce needs a network infrastructure to transport the content.