transit

CEFRB2

/ˈtɹæn.zɪt/

noun · verb

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare), as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars; short form of public transit or mass transit
The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
The act of passing over, across, or through something.

In context

Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.
the transit of goods through a country
I always take transit to work.

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In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.
1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsle...
In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
Incoherency had overtaken his speech, but he was unaware of it. Nor did he connect the smashing of a bottle with the generous curve of his transit.
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 117

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From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).