transportations
- 1Plural of transportation. Rare, since transportation is usually uncountable.
The ledger records the transportations of convicts to Maryland and Virginia in the 1700s.
Court records from the colony document hundreds of transportations to distant penal settlements.
Note
A plural the base noun seldom needs, since transportation usually names the uncountable business of moving people and goods. The plural earns its place when separate events are counted, above all in the historical penal sense, where each deportation to a colony was one transportation. In American use, where the word can mean a vehicle or a fare, it can count those too. Elsewhere, modes of transportation usually reads more naturally.
transportations is a form of transportation
transportation, noun: A means of getting from one place to another; the vehicle or system used for travel. Full entry
- Forms
- transportationtransportations plural
- Spelling
- transportation → transportations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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