freight

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/ freɪt /

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noun

goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.

the ordinary conveyance or means of transport of goods provided by common carriers (distinguished from express): Shipping by freight is less expensive.

the charges, fee, or compensation paid for such transportation: We pay the freight.

(especially in Britain) the cargo, or any part of the cargo, of a vessel; merchandise transported by water.

Chiefly British. transportation of goods by water.

freight train.

Slang. cost or price, especially when high: I'd like a larger house, but can't afford the freight.

verb (used with object)

to load; burden: a story heavily freighted with private meaning.

to load with goods or merchandise for transportation: It took all night to freight the ship.

to transport as freight; send by freight.

OTHER WORDS FOR freight

3 freightage, haulage.

8 charge.

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Origin of freight

1350–1400; Middle English freyght (noun), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vrecht, variant of vracht. See fraught

synonym study for freight

1. Freight, cargo, shipment refer to goods being transported from place to place. Freight is the general term for goods transported from one place to another by any means: to send freight from New York to New Orleans. Cargo is the term generally used for goods carried by ship or plane: to send a cargo to Europe. Shipment is a quantity of goods destined for a particular place, no matter how sent: a shipment of potatoes.

OTHER WORDS FROM freight

freightless, adjectiveo·ver·freight, verb (used with object)un·freight·ed, adjective

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How to use freight in a sentence

Employees were expected to move as the freight moved in order to get the freight unloaded quicker.
A Temp Worker Died on the Job After FedEx Didn’t Fix a Known Hazard. The Fine: $7,000.|by Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism|December 23, 2020|ProPublica
Spokesman Keefe said freight services have seen a pickup in chilled foods sent to Britain from more distant parts of Europe as a result of earlier concerns about delays at Dover.
After mutant virus fears cut off trucking routes to Europe, U.K. businesses look to cargo jets and freight trains|kdunn6|December 22, 2020|Fortune
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday was planning to hold emergency talks with his government ministers on how to ensure the continued flow of freight into the country.
The U.K. is facing a Christmas food crisis, as France closes border to trucks over mutant COVID-19 strain|Jeremy Kahn|December 21, 2020|Fortune
The battery-powered, consumer-focused Badger pickup never entirely made strategic sense for Nikola, whose focus has always been on creating long-haul freight trucks fueled by liquid hydrogen.
Why today’s GM news is devastating for Nikola|dzanemorris|November 30, 2020|Fortune

Apparently, investors can’t get enough of these kinds of freight app businesses.
The Station: COVID’s effect on car ownership|Kirsten Korosec|November 30, 2020|TechCrunch
But what he did was reasonably brave and freighted with all the symbolism of which he was well aware.
Steve Scalise and the Right’s Ridiculous Racial Blame Game|Michael Tomasky|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
One can see an assignation end hopelessly, another can see it freighted with possibility.
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You are converging two events that are freighted with expectations, essentially doubling your risk of disaster.
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In The Paying Guests, the house, which creaks and stands so still and yet so freighted, is almost a character in itself.
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Within days of 9/11 he was talking about a “crusade” to avenge the blow, without realizing how freighted that word was.
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Along with his war-books, Thyrsis was reading his daily newspaper, which came to him freighted with the cynicism of the hour.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
There I met a fellow who freighted me down with pump tools and I had to take back some of the wrenches I borrowed.
David Lannarck, Midget|George S. Harney
The distance has been made between these cities by a tug, with ten heavily-freighted barges, in six days.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873|Various
Just before sunset my raft was complete and freighted with my outer clothing, boots and pistol.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce|Ambrose Bierce
I did not flatter myself so much because of my own merits, as on account of the richly-freighted old galleon.
Hurricane Hurry|W.H.G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for freight

freight

/ (freɪt) /

noun

commercial transport that is slower and cheaper than express
the price charged for such transport
goods transported by this means
(as modifier)freight transport

mainly British a ship's cargo or part of it

verb (tr)

to load with goods for transport

mainly US and Canadian to convey commercially as or by freight

to load or burden; charge

Derived forms of freight

freightless, adjective

Word Origin for freight

C16: from Middle Dutch vrecht; related to French fret, Spanish flete, Portuguese frete

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