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freighter
[ frey-ter ]
noun
- a vessel used mainly for carrying cargo.
- a large aircraft or spacecraft used primarily for transporting cargo and equipment:
The space station of the future will be supplied by robot freighters.
- a person whose occupation it is to receive and forward freight.
- a person for whom freight is transported; shipper.
freighter
/ ˈfreɪtə /
noun
- a ship or aircraft designed for transporting cargo
- a person concerned with the loading or chartering of a ship
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Word History and Origins
Origin of freighter1
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Example Sentences
The 7,000-ton freighter is still stocked with sake bottles and four fighter planes, and it is encircled by gray reef.
The red bottom-plates of a submarine freighter came rolling up behind the surge to show how futile was the might of man.
Jandron only means that Miss Mallen is much more comfortable on this passenger-ship than she'd be in your freighter.
Ummm—seems so—wasn't she the big freighter that disappeared many years ago?
The freighter had a long black-snake whip, and was snapping it about the ears of the leaders.
The two machines glided up the slope, leaving the baffled and swearing freighter far behind.
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