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as in to carry
to support and take from one place to another will you transport this heavy casserole dish to the dining room for me?

Synonyms & Similar Words

transport

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noun

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How does the verb transport contrast with its synonyms?

Some common synonyms of transport are banish, deport, and exile. While all these words mean "to remove by authority from a state or country," transport implies sending a convicted criminal to an overseas penal colony.

a convict who was transported to Australia

Where would banish be a reasonable alternative to transport?

Although the words banish and transport have much in common, banish implies compulsory removal from a country not necessarily one's own.

banished for seditious activities

When could deport be used to replace transport?

The synonyms deport and transport are sometimes interchangeable, but deport implies sending out of the country an alien who has illegally entered or whose presence is judged inimical to the public welfare.

illegal aliens will be deported

When is it sensible to use exile instead of transport?

The words exile and transport can be used in similar contexts, but exile may imply compulsory removal or an enforced or voluntary absence from one's own country.

a writer who exiled himself for political reasons

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of transport
Verb
Lithos arranges for the dust to be collected at the rock quarries and transported to local farms. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2025 Typically, the pontiff’s body is placed in a casket made of three materials—cypress, lead, and walnut—and then covered with a silk veil before being sealed and transported under the basilica to the Vatican Grottoes, where the remains of almost all his predecessors rest. Paolo Armelli, Vogue, 21 Apr. 2025
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The system utilizes the transport layer for various communication events including requests, results and errors. John Werner, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025 Protection from the Wind Extensive research and measurement campaigns have been carried out to better understand dust plumes, including their formation, transport and impacts. Christophe Lavaysse, JSTOR Daily, 17 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for transport
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transport
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  • Multiple federal agencies on April 11 sent a letter to Harvard University accusing the college of violating federal civil rights law for not doing enough to combat antisemitism during student protests of the Israel-Hamas war.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • On Monday, more than 170 Democratic and independent lawmakers sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and IRS acting commissioner Michael Faulkender asking them to commit to keeping Direct File open and operating.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025
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  • Nintendo fans excited over the upcoming Switch console said on April 3 they were disappointed by the high price tag, as US tariffs bite.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, Wired News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Part of what excited us and the challenge was to make sure all of the materials were responsibly sourced.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In a concert review from 2015, The Times’ August Brown noted Arca’s undeniably entrancing stage presence and energy.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Creator, writer and director Mike White’s anthology series has entranced viewers since its premiere in 2021.
    Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Hammie also screams at people on car trips and sometimes has to be exiled to the dashboard.
    Anna North, Vox, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The Garifuna people are descendants of Indigenous Caribbean tribes and enslaved Africans, who were exiled from St. Vincent and the Grenadines by British colonizers and settled largely on the coast of Central America.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • How the Moho Is Working The force of that collision could have carried the Moho of the incoming pieces up and over the older landmass, resulting in a doubling of the Moho there, says Paul Karabinos, a geologist at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
    Alexandra Witze, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Faber is carrying big minutes Faber, in his second full season, has averaged 27:09 of ice time in the first two games after playing a ton of minutes down the stretch of the season.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The mouth is open just enough, perhaps because a shout of ecstasy had been ready to escape, if only the fan’s knocking at the door of the ecstatic had been answered.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Kelly later composed a chronicle of his meandering space treks - highlighting the agonies and the ecstasies of life in orbit - in the sensational book Endurance.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
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  • Broken down vehicle on northbound I-40/US-71 in Grandview There is a broken down vehicle on I-40/US-71 between 155th Street and MO-150.
    Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Police said numerous roads and neighborhoods were flooded, and officers assisted more than a dozen motorists whose vehicles were trapped in high water.
    John Bacon, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
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  • There’s an adorable compact coop that is ready to ship to your door.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2025
  • That’s right, there’s £100 ($131) off the 256GB model — the lowest-capacity storage option for the Max — which reduces the price from £1,199 ($1,570) to £1,099 ($1,439), with all colors ready to ship.
    David Phelan, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025

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“Transport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transport. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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