freightage

[ frey-tij ]
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noun
  1. the transportation of goods.

  2. the price for this.

  1. freight, cargo, or lading.

Origin of freightage

1
First recorded in 1685–95; freight + -age

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How to use freightage in a sentence

  • The Helen Mar carried no guano, and charged freightage accordingly for being clean.

    The Belted Seas | Arthur Colton
  • Actually, the heavy freightage that must pass over these roads makes it essential that they be first class.

    Still Jim | Honor Willsie Morrow
  • If the potatoes had gone to Philadelphia, he would have paid forty-eight dollars freightage.

  • One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

    The Caxtons, Complete | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Passing the wide freightage doors, I came to a narrow one which was wide open; so I first looked, and then walked in.

British Dictionary definitions for freightage

freightage

/ (ˈfreɪtɪdʒ) /


noun
  1. the commercial conveyance of goods

  2. the goods so transported

  1. the price charged for such conveyance

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