Department of Transportation
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- proper noun
- Formal
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Departamento de Transporte de los Estados Unidos
- Moreover, the Department of Transportation presented tribal leaders with few alternative routes for Henry Swanson Drive.
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- Department of Transportation (DOT)
- State Department of Transportation
All right, so the Department of Transportation is very interested in safety and maintenance of the roads, highways, bridges, etcetera.
- All right, so the Department of Transportation is very interested in safety and maintenance of the roads, highways, bridges, etcetera.
- Certainly we have other tools, whether it's Department of Transportation, right, airline flights, We have a whole bunch of things that we can use.
Examples
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Traffic and bicycle laws can typically be obtained from each state's Department of Transportation.
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Or the Department of Transportation, which includes the Federal Aviation Administration and Federal Highway Administration.
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What do you want from the Department of Transportation?
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The study, conducted by the Department of Transportation, concluded that stop signs were needed.
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As noted previously, the Department of Transportation requires those with commercial drivers' licenses to undergo drug testing.
Academic text (2005) -
All right, so the Department of Transportation is very interested in safety and maintenance of the roads, highways, bridges, etcetera.
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The $2.25 million tower project was funded jointly by the Florida Department of Transportation and airport reserve funds.
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Of the 3,000 culverts managed by the Washington State Department of Transportation, sixty percent are barriers to fish.
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Cellutech's marketing is benefiting from a timely endorsement by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (DOT).
Academic text (1996) -
The Department of Transportation is responsible for maintaining the safety of our highways.
Synonyms
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The United States government agency that manages roads, air, and rail transport
Surface Forms
Morphology
department + of + transportation
The phrase is compositionally built from 'department' (an organizational unit) and 'transportation' (movement of people or goods), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes an organizational body responsible for transportation. This is a literal, cross-linguistically common naming pattern (government department + domain) rather than an idiom, so it is transparent, though the exact status as a U.S. federal agency might not be deduced without context.
Etymology
Department of Transportation comes from putting all work about moving people and goods into one government office: department means a part of the government and transportation means 'moving people and goods'. So the name refers to the government office that plans and runs roads, trains, and airports.