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By Jon Fernquest

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[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
June 26, 2007

Transit

transit (noun) - carrying goods and people between places

in transit
in transit between
during transit
transit through
transit time

mass transit
public transit
a transit system
air transit
rail transit
sea transit

a transit visa
transit lounge

a transit point
a transit point for
a major transit point
a strategic transit point
transit routes


Example sentences:

* The conglomerate holds hefty stakes in banking and mass transit.

* Your goods have been spotted in transit.

* You'll need at least a transit visa to enter the country.

* Air transit and landing rights have been granted to all major airlines.

* Passengers on connecting flights must wait in the airport's transit lounge.

* The goods have been tightly secured to prevent anyone from tampering with them during transit.

* New Jersey Transit trains were running again to Manhattan. (name of a government mass transportation organisation)

* Permission was given for the ships to transit through the dangerous straits.

* It will add months to the transit times.

* The goods are in transit between the warehouse and the factory.

* When immigrants arrive they find no real public transit or affordable housing.

* This gigantic proposal involves the construction of rail and mass transit systems and shopping complexes and heaven knows what else.

* Tri-State Motor Transit, Inc. (company name)

* "Ridership on mass transit in the United States has increased 15% since 1995."

* Some transit routes are altered in the new plan.

* "A single four-million-ton freighter's transit window was a bare twenty-five seconds."

* "Number eight for transit! Thank you."

* Burma is an important strategic transit point for goods produced in southern China.

* The Chinese authorities are planning to use Burma as a crucial transit point, not just for the products grown or manufactured in southwest China, but as a means of transporting goods from the country's economic power-houses along the eastern seaboard.

* "Lebanon will not allow itself to become a transit point or base for any force, state or organization that seeks to undermine its security or that of Syria".

* The two countries signed a protocol on the opening of a small town on the border as a new transit point for border trade.

* The airport has become a major transit point for people without proper documents.

* The country has become a transit point in the drug trade.

* Nepal served as a transit point for Tibetan refugees heading to India.


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