transit

🇺🇸 /ˈtrænzɪt/ 🇬🇧 /ˈtrænzɪt/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP10000Oxford5000
noun
C1

moving or carrying things from one place to another

The cost includes transit of goods to the warehouse.

C1

passing through a place on the way to another

You need a transit visa to change planes in that country.

C1

buses, trains, and other ways people travel around

The city's transit system makes it easy to get around without a car.

verb
R

to move across or through an area

The ship is in transit through the Panama Canal.

translation

n. moving or carrying things from one place to another; passing through a place on the way to another; buses, trains, and other ways people travel around
v. to move across or through an area

Word Forms

3rd Present transits
Past transited
Perfect transited
Progressive transiting
Plural transits