freighter

American  

[frey-ter] / ˈfreɪ tər /

noun

1. a vessel used mainly for carrying cargo.

2. a large aircraft or spacecraft used primarily for transporting cargo and equipment.

   The space station of the future will be supplied by robot freighters.

3. a person whose occupation it is to receive and forward freight.

4. a person for whom freight is transported; shipper.

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freighter British  

/ ˈfreɪtə /

noun

1. a ship or aircraft designed for transporting cargo

2. a person concerned with the loading or chartering of a ship

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Etymology

Origin of freighter

First recorded in 1615–25; freight + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The MD-11F freighter operated by UPS, crashed after one of its engines separated from the wing as it was preparing to take off from Louisville.

From BBC

The bearing was part of an assembly linking the MD-11 freighter’s left engine to its wing.

From The Wall Street Journal

In one operation about 35 nautical miles from the small island of Gavdos, off Crete, a coastguard vessel, a Danish freighter and a helicopter took 365 people off a fishing boat, according to the agency.

From Barron's

The freighter was quickly unloaded and flew back to China carrying only empty pallets.

From The Wall Street Journal

The ship they were particularly anxious to get quickly into port was the Aleksandrovsk, a freighter carrying twenty-four hydrogen bomb warheads for intermediate-range missiles, along with forty-four tactical nuclear warheads.

From Literature

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