Oxford Business English Dictionary for Learners of English

[u] the fact of sth being easy to understand and not being secret: Shareholders have called for more transparency in company dealings.

(also'acetate, OHT) It] writing or a picture printed on a piece of film that you can see through, that can be shown on a screen by shining light through the film: She wrote the key points of her talk on overhead transparencies (= shown using an overhead projector).—Picture at presentation

transparent /traens'paerant/ adjective

(of glass, plastic, etc.) allowing you to see through it

easy to understand and not secret: a transparent and fair system of voting о The company's strategy needs to be clear and transparent to shareholders.

transport /'traenspo:t; AmE -spo:rt/ noun, verb

noun [U]

see also public transport, surface transport

1 (especially BrE) (AmE usually .transportation) a system for carrying people or goods from one place to another using vehicles: to travel on/by public transport о poor transport and distribution networks о transport workers transit (3)

О aii/freight/passenger/rail/road transport *

transport networks/infrastructure/links/systems ♦ a transport company/firm/operator/service * the transport industry/sector ♦ a transport plan/policy/ strategy

(BrE) {AmE .transportation) a vehicle or method of travel: Applicants must have their own transport.

Will transport be provided? о Transportation was provided from the hotel to the convention center.

(especially BrE) (AmE usually .transportation) the activity or business of carrying goods from one place to another using lorries/trucks, trains, etc: The goods were damaged during transport, о controls on the transport of nuclear waste о transportation costs

• verb [+ obj] to take sth/sb from one place to another in a vehicle: The chemicals are transported by road to the processing plant, о The airline transported over half a million passengers last year.

transportable /traen'spo:tabl; AmE -'spoirt-/ adjective [not usually before noun] that can be carried or moved from one place to another: These storage units are compact and easily transportable.

transportation /.traensp^'teijn; AmE -po:rt-/ = transport noun

transporter /traen'spo:ta(r); AmE -'spo:rt-/ noun [C]

a large vehicle used for carrying heavy objects, for example other vehicles: a car transporter

a company that moves goods from one place to another: the country's largest gas transporter

trans-ship (also spelled tranship, transship)

/traenz'Jip/ verb [+ obj] (-pp-)

to move goods from one ship or other form of

transport

truck / lorry (BrE)

container ship

transport to another: 80% of cargo arriving at the

harbour is trans-shipped to other ports. ► transshipment (also spelled transhipment, transshipment) noun [C,u]: The port serves as a trans-shipment point for the region.

travel /'trffivlI verb, noun

verb [+ obj or no obj] (-II-, especially BrE, AmE usually -I-)