freightage
Americannoun
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the commercial conveyance of goods
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the goods so transported
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the price charged for such conveyance
Etymology
Origin of freightage
Example Sentences
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Perhaps there’s no reason it would, and yet the absence of historical freightage stands in contrast to Farhadi’s Iranian films, in which the characters are manic with the tensions of an unfinished past.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2019
Railroad curves, bridges and tunnels between Jersey City and Whiting did not permit freightage of Stanolind's tank.
From Time Magazine Archive
The freightage or lighterage charge is $5 a case and boats usually make one trip a day with fifty cases a trip.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not a plausible source of raw materials: the freightage from Mars to Earth would be too expensive for many centuries to come.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
It is inevitable, at first, that a country opened by the railroads for the express purpose of obtaining the largest possible freightage of cereals should for a few seasons be a "single-crop country."
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
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