transportation

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act or an instance of transporting.
• noun The state of being transported.
• noun A means of conveyance.
• noun The business of conveying passengers or goods.
• noun Deportation to a penal colony.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In geology, the movement of land-waste by rivers, glaciers, waves, currents, wind, etc.
• noun Railway tickets or other permits for traveling.
• noun The act of transporting, or conveying from one place to another, or the state of being so transported; carriage; conveyance; transmission.
• noun The removal or banishment, for a specified term, of a convict to a penal settlement in another country.
• noun Transport; ecstasy; rapture.
• noun Means of transporting, as wagons or other vehicles; also, the cost of traveling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.
• noun rare Transport; ecstasy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
• noun historical Deportation to a penal colony.
• noun US A means of conveyance.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the act of expelling a person from their native land
• noun the act of moving something from one location to another
• noun the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
• noun the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
• noun a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
• noun the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966