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freight
[ freyt ]
noun
- goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.
- the ordinary conveyance or means of transport of goods provided by common carriers ( express ):
Shipping by freight is less expensive.
- the charges, fee, or compensation paid for such transportation:
We pay the freight.
Synonyms: haulage, freightage
- (especially in Britain) the cargo, or any part of the cargo, of a vessel; merchandise transported by water.
- Chiefly British. transportation of goods by water.
- Slang. cost or price, especially when high:
I'd like a larger house, but can't afford the freight.
verb (used with object)
- to load; burden:
a story heavily freighted with private meaning.
Synonyms: charge
- to load with goods or merchandise for transportation:
It took all night to freight the ship.
- to transport as freight; send by freight.
freight
/ freɪt /
noun
- commercial transport that is slower and cheaper than express
- the price charged for such transport
- goods transported by this means
- ( as modifier )
freight transport
- a ship's cargo or part of it
verb
- to load with goods for transport
- to convey commercially as or by freight
- to load or burden; charge
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Derived Forms
- ˈfreightless, adjective
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Other Words From
- freightless adjective
- over·freight verb (used with object)
- un·freighted adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of freight1
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Example Sentences
Up in the tower, Bucca was joined by Battalion Chief Orio Palmer, who had managed to get a freight elevator to bring him part way.
Toledo is a tough city, a factory town, a freight train junction, a lake steamer port.
But a year later he was back home in New Orleans and back on the docks, handling freight on ships bound for the Gulf of Mexico.
Bette would “have no choice” but to pay the extra, socialistic freight.
“She seemed to indicate she had worked at Stapleton Air Freight,” he said.
We made the freight camp, however, just as the storm cut loose in deadly earnest.
You know that if there was anything they wanted they weren't taking any risk by going to any freight camp.
Faintly outlined among the trees, Jess saw an old freight or box car.
By sheer good fortune a big tree stump stood under the door of the freight car, or the children never could have opened it.
They could see nothing at all, for the freight car was tightly made, and all outside was nearly as black as night.
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