rapid transportation

collocation in English

meaningsofrapidandtransportation

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rapid
adjective
uk
/ˈræp.ɪd/us
/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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transportation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌtræn.spɔːˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌtræn.spɚˈteɪ.ʃən/
the movement of people or goods from one place ...
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(Definition ofrapidandtransportationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Transport infrastructure is often the decisive factor for the location of regional investment, tourism development andrapidtransportationof goods.
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It would allow much morerapidtransportationto and from work for millions who live in that densely populated area.
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Strategic reserves must be maintained and must be capable ofrapidtransportationto the scene of trouble for cold or limited war tasks.
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Rapidtransportationof severely injured patients improves the outcome in trauma.
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What we must develop are means ofrapidtransportationof those dispersed forces to the area of concentration, wherever it may be, in the quickest possible time.
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The joint venture manufactures and assembles fully built buses and coaches targeted at developing massrapidtransportationsystems.
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The provision of services during public duties are not limited to first aid; ambulances are provided in most events forrapidtransportation.
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High-speed presses,rapidtransportation, mass distribution: all have combined to put the vilest obscenity within reach of every man, woman, and child in the country.
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The era featured mass-conscripted armies,rapidtransportation(first on railroads, then by sea and air), telegraph and wireless communications, and the concept of total war.
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The rivers and lake systems providedrapidtransportationsystems for floating logs to the mills and utilizing steamboats to transport finish products to markets.
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They are intended primarily for carrying passengers, and as a means ofrapidtransportation, since the trams usually have priority over the remaining traffic.
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By the 1870s, the canal's goods traffic had dwindled to just three major types of bulk goods - forest products, coal and ore, none of which requiredrapidtransportation.
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