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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transcontinental
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a transcontinental railroad
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But transcontinental status always brought a classical rush to the head of railroad companies.
▪ But the savings disappear on transcontinental travel.
▪ By 1886, the first year after the completion of the transcontinental line, the figure was 1,665,960.
▪ The transcontinental pipeline that hit the news last year is only part of the project.
▪ The first transcontinental railroad, we were taught to believe, was a huge government success.
▪ The government had long since perceived that the way west depended on the transcontinental railroad.
▪ This was her third transcontinental flight in three years, and its differences from the others showed her transformation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transcontinental

Transcontinental \Trans*con`ti*nen"tal\, a. [Pref. trans- + continental.] Extending or going across a continent; as, a transcontinental railroad or journey.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transcontinental

also trans-continental, 1853 (in transcontinental railroad), American English, from trans- + continental.

Wiktionary
transcontinental

a. crossing, spanning a continent.

WordNet
transcontinental

adj. spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent; "transcontinental railway"; "transcontinental travelers"; "a transcontinental city"

Wikipedia
Transcontinental

Transcontinental may refer to:

  • Transcontinental country, a country that straddles more than one continent
  • TC Transcontinental, a publishing, media and marketing company based in Canada, a subsidiary of Transcontinental Inc
  • "Transcontinental", a song by the band Pedro the Lion from the album Achilles Heel
  • Transcontinental Treaty or Adams–Onís Treaty, a US—Spain agreement that settled a border dispute
  • The Transcontinental (Port Augusta) a South Australian newspaper

Usage examples of "transcontinental".

He could have learned of this from messages being sent by United Airlines to the cockpits of its transcontinental flights, including Flight 93, warning of cockpit intrusion and telling of the New York attacks.

Bay Company built or purchased its fleet of flagship downtown department stores in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon and Winnipeg, opening smaller versions in Kamloops, Vernon, Nelson, Macleod, Lethbridge, Yorkton and Kenora, all of them initlallv successful as the transcontinental railA ays deposited tens of thousands of new customers on their doorsteps.

San Francisco terminus of The Transcontinental Airways company were worried.

It was the great Transcontinental Airways that had suffered most repeatedly.

A few minutes later he landed on the roof of the Transcontinental Airways shops, entered them, and went to the office of the Designing Engineer, John Fuller, an old schoolmate.

Millions of other web sites - the results of collective, multi-annual, transcontinental efforts - contain unique stores of information in the form of databases, articles, discussion threads, and links to other web sites.

His muscles were hard and resilient and black as the cured rubber of a transcontinental truck tyre, and, one legged Craig was unbalanced.

The greatest disaster in railroad history occurred in the early hours of the morning on the main line of Taggart Transcontinental, at Winston, Colorado, demolishing the famous Taggart Tunnel!

You will find—as it is marked on the copies o£ your income-tax returns which Mulligan will hand over to you—that I have refunded only those taxes which you paid on the salary you earned as Operating Vice-President, but not the taxes you paid on your income from your Taggart Transcontinental stock.

The great field of the Transcontinental lines was packed with excited men and women, waiting to catch a glimpse of two of the greatest things the country had heard of in the centuryArcot's molecular motion machine and the Air Pirate!

John Fuller, designing engineer, helped the two men to build a ship which used the drive in order to have a weapon to seek out and capture the mysterious Air Pirate whose robberies were ruining Transcontinental Airways.

But on the balance sheets of Taggart Transcontinental, the checks of Jim's subsidies for empty trains bore larger figures than the profit brought by the best freight train of the busiest industrial division.

Specifically, the number of factories which have closed throughout the territory of the Taggart Transcontinental system is so large that it has wrecked our entire financial structure.

You deserved every penny of that stock, and in the days of your father I would have refunded every penny of your profit—but under your brother's management, Taggart Transcontinental has taken its share of the looting, it has made profits by force, by means of government favors, subsidies, moratoriums, directives.

A fast cruiser whisked him to Nampa, where Olmstead's "accidentally" damaged transcontinental transport was being repaired, and from which city Olmstead had been gone so briefly that no one had missed him.