different between transportation vs straphanger

English

From transport +? -ation.

transportation (usually uncountable, plural transportations)

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation.
(historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.
(US) A means of conveyance.
Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.
(US) A ticket or fare.
- 1898, Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
  Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
  (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
  Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."

strap +? hanger

straphanger (plural straphangers)

A person who travels using public transportation (often standing up and holding on to a strap).
- 1970, Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971, Chapter 1, p. 8,^[1]
  For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.
- 2008, William Neuman, "$1 Billion Later, Subway Elevators Still Fail," New York Times, 19 May (retrieved 16 Nov. 2009):
  The number of elevators has grown significantly since 1990, when the Americans With Disabilities Act set off a transformation of the aging transit system. For the disabled, the changes promised to open doors, while thousands of other straphangers—parents with strollers, older travelers—expected a small dose of convenience in a wearying city.

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