freight agent
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of freight agent
An Americanism dating back to 1835–45
Example Sentences
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And his freight agent warned him that the price will most likely rise, to $35,000, because of rail and trucking difficulties in the United States.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
“It’s like nothing we’ve ever heard of, or seen happen,” said Jia Qing, a freight agent at Janco International Freight in Shanghai.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2020
A friend of his, another freight agent, had suffered a heart attack the other day.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 23, 2018
Born in San Francisco eight years after the gold rush, initiated in transportation by loading gold on a stage coach of which his father was freight agent.
From Time Magazine Archive
He became a freight agent for the Auburn & Syracuse railway company at Auburn in 1841, an express messenger between Albany and Buffalo a year later, and in 1843 a resident agent in Buffalo.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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