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Transportation vs Automotive - What's the difference?

transportation | automotive |

As a noun transportation

is transportation.

As an adjective automotive is

having the ability to move by itself; self-propelled or self-propelling.

transportation

English

Noun

(-)
  • The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
  • We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
  • (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
  • Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
  • (US) A means of conveyance.
  • Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
  • (US) A ticket or fare.
  • * 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
  • Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
    (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
    Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."

    automotive

    English

    (automotive)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having the ability to move by itself; self-propelled or self-propelling.
  • Of, or relating to motor vehicles.
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  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}

    See also

    * automobile * locomotive ----