form of transportation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformandtransportation
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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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 offormandtransportationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Trustworthiness of the engineers was also paramount in attempts to establish railway locomotives as a safe, reliable, and cheapformoftransportation.
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As a consequence, they thought of communication as aformoftransportation.
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Significant investments in physical infrastructure are necessary, especially in theformoftransportationand communication systems.
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For two-wheelers (which are a dominantformoftransportation), she estimates that it is cheaper to retrofit them with catalytic converters rather than substitute four-stroke engines for twostroke engines.
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Commuters could not turn to anotherformoftransportationto enable them to get to and from their work each day.
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In distinction to that, it has been the freeing of longer distance coach travel which has brought passengers back into that particularformoftransportation.
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That is quite unlike the arrangements for any otherformoftransportationor any other company.
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It is fair to say, however, that there is always a risk in anyformoftransportation.
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That is infinitely the cheapestformoftransportationin existence in the world.
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Amongst other things, this ensures that air travel is in fact the safestformoftransportation.
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Will there not be a newformoftransportation?
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Indeed, whatformoftransportationcan exist without its terminals?
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Once the main—in fact, the only—formoftransportation, it has still an important part to play.
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The money has not gone into any otherformoftransportation—whether public passenger revenue support or building more roads.
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We ought to encourage such aformoftransportationwhich does away with an undignified type of work.
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A large number of people in this country are gradually coming to question whether, as aformoftransportation, the railways have a long-term future.
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There are many methocls—such as tariffs or control of the freight charges, and so on—by which traffic can he attracted to eachformoftransportation.
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I should have thought that the cheapestformoftransportationwas by barge—that should certainly be utilised—by pipeline and by rail.
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This is aformoftransportationwhich we all use at one time or another.
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It is not very fast, but it is a usefulformoftransportation.
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