transport

verb [T] (GOODS/PEOPLE)

/trænˈspɔːt/

/-ˈspɔːrt/

Definition

B2 to take goods or people from one place to another: The pipeline was constructed to transport oil across Alaska to ports on the coast. Such heavy items are expensive to transport (by plane).Transferring and transporting objects › (in the past) to send a criminal to live in a country far away as a punishment: 162,000 convicts were transported to Australia from 1788 to 1868.Punishing someone by sending them somewhere elseEvicting and forcing to leave

(Definition of transport verb (GOODS/PEOPLE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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