Freight
[freɪt] or [fret]
Definition
(noun.) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates.
(noun.) the charge for transporting something by common carrier; 'we pay the freight'; 'the freight rate is usually cheaper'.
(verb.) load with goods for transportation.
(verb.) transport commercially as cargo.
Edited by Albert--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.
(n.) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
(n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
(n.) Freight transportation, or freight line.
(a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
(v. t.) To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.
Typed by Agatha
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Load, lade, charge.
n. [1]. Cargo, lading, load, burden.[2]. Freightage, freight money, charge for freight.
Editor: Rosalie
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CARGO]
Edited by Barbie
Definition
n. the lading or cargo esp. of a ship; the charge for transporting goods by water.—v.t. to load a ship.—ns. Freight′age money paid for freight; Freight′er one who freights a vessel.
Typist: Nicholas
Examples
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Approximately 150 loaded freight cars are sent out every day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We trucked freight across the mountains with the big carts before the camions came into use. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Their freight is much less, and their insurance not greater; and no goods, besides, are less liable to suffer by the carriage. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He left the war horse that had carried him through his Spanish campaigns behind him when he returned to Italy in order to save freight. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One night I got an order to hold a freight train, and I replied that I would. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The spectators seemed spellbound, for no shouts or exclamations were heard, as all watched anxiously the silent course of the heavily freighted pontoons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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