transportation company
2
2.2
- noun
- /ˌtrænspɔrˈteɪʃən ˈkʌmpəni/
- US
:
empresa de transporte
- An example of an innovative service company is one of Baogang's transportation companies.
Examples
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The Seaboard Corporation is a diversified international food production, food processing, and transportation company with annual sales of more than $1 billion.
Academic text (1997) -
Norfolk Southern Corporation is one of the nation's premier transportation companies.
Blog text (6) -
...the goods, at all times, after delivery to Coca-Cola or a transportation company--
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Laidlaw Inc. is a major waste management and transportation company that operates on both sides of the border and across the border.
Academic text (1992) -
The transportation company may have its loyalty divided among several HMOs or other user organizations.
Academic text (1993) -
When local transportation companies were unreliable or unavailable, the social worker picked up the families.
Academic text (2003) -
Customers are mostly exporters, importers, transportation companies, and supermarket chains.
Academic text (1996) -
Canada's transportation companies reached new records for quantities of grain shipped, while mining, lumbering, and construction were also robust.
Academic text (2005) -
A follow-up interview, certain elements of the private sector, such as utility and transportation companies, should be privy to government disaster plans because so often they are among the first to respond when a disaster strikes.
Academic text (2006) -
The United Nations has contracted with private transportation companies to move the Kurds home.
Synonyms
238
2.9
A person or company that delivers letters and packages
26
1.0
A company that runs trains to carry people or goods
10
2.7
A business that uses trucks to carry goods for other companies
10
4.1
A person or company that moves goods by truck on roads
10
2.8
A business that sends goods by boat between countries
7
2.8
A business that takes people's or companies' things to a new place
7
1.6
A company that runs buses to carry people in a town or city
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a company that provides transport services' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'transportation' (organized movement of people or goods) with 'company' (an organization). This straightforward noun–noun compound follows normal compositional patterns and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The noun transportation company comes from two plain words: transportation, which means moving things, and company, which means a group or business. Imagine a team whose job is to 'move' people or goods from one place to another, and that's why the phrase means a business that provides 'transport' services.