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Transportation vs Wagonage - What's the difference?

transportation | wagonage |

As nouns the difference between transportation and wagonage

is that transportation is transportation while wagonage is a fee paid for transportation by wagon.

transportation

English

Noun

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  • 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."

    wagonage

    English

    Noun

  • A fee paid for transportation by wagon.
  • A collection of wagons; wagons generally.
    • Wagonage , provender, and a piece or two of cannon. — Carlyle.
    (Webster 1913)