Freight

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  • noun. Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.
  • noun. A burden; a load.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Commercial transportation of goods.
  • noun. The charge for transporting goods.
  • noun. A railway train carrying goods only.
  • transitive verb. To convey commercially as cargo.
  • transitive verb. To load with goods to be transported.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To load or lade with goods or merchandise for transportation: often used figuratively.
  • To hire for the transportation of goods or merchandise.
  • To carry or transport as freight.
  • Same as fraught.
  • noun. The cargo, or any part of the cargo, of a ship; lading; that which is carried by water; in the United States and Canada, in general, anything carried for pay either by water or by land; the lading of a ship, canal-boat, railroad-car, wagon, etc.
  • noun. The price paid for the transportation of goods or merchandise by sea; by extension, in the United States and Canada, in general, the price paid for the transportation of goods or merchandise by land or by sea.
  • noun. In a more general sense, the price paid for the use of a ship, including the transportation of passengers.
  • noun. Short for freight-train.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight.
  • adjective. a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods.
  • adjective. See under Car.
  • adjective. a railroad train made up of freight cars; -- called in England goods train.
  • noun. That with which anything is fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
  • noun. The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
  • noun. Freight transportation, or freight line.
  • transitive verb. To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Payment for transportation.
  • noun. Goods or items in transport.
  • noun. Transport of goods.
  • verb. To transport (goods).
  • verb. To load with freight.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. goods carried by a large vehicle
  • noun. transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
  • verb. transport commercially as cargo
  • noun. the charge for transporting something by common carrier
  • verb. load with goods for transportation
  • Word Usage
    "So I think freight will clearly -- the incremental cost in freight will go up, but we've done some things to actually take what we call freight miles, if you will, out of our system."
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