Collocations for "transport"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "transport" in context.
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transport
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the transport of [goods, chemicals, products]
- [local, international, overseas] transport
- the transport of [goods] [locally]
- the transport of [dangerous, hazardous] [goods]
- transport by [truck, rail, air]
- are in need of discreet transport
- was [damaged, lost, misplaced] during transport
- in charge of transport and [distribution, logistics, supply]
- [passenger, cargo] transport
- the transport of [passengers]
- cheap [air, public] transport
- UK: [encourage, promote] (the use of) public transport
- UK: use public transport to [get around, cross] the city
- UK: increased [fees, fares] for public transport
- UK: the [Secretary of State, Department] for Transport
- transport [goods, people, food, systems]
- the [goods] were transported
- transport people [safely, efficiently, quickly]
- transport [convicts, criminals, illegal immigrants]
- transport food [from one place to another, to Africa]
- while [reading, staring at the flames, having a massage] she was transported to
- [he, her mind] was transported to
- her thoughts were transported to
- the [book, movie] transported me to another [world, place, era]
- pay transport fees
- transport services
- improve transport infrastructure
'transport' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Ministry
- airborne
- aircraft
- airplane
- ambush
- barge
- bulky
- camel
- charter
- chemical
- coal
- controller
- convenient
- crude
- cumbersome
- detach
- disruption
- estimate
- failings
- fare
- freight
- frequency
- handle
- harm
- hazardous
- infrastructure
- inland
- inmate
- limestone
- lorry
- marine
- merchandise
- mode
- network
- oil
- ore
- ox
- passenger
- poisonous
- quarry
- railway
- refined
- reliable
- remain
- rose
- safely
- safety
- schedule
- scheduling
- security