waybill
Americannoun
-
a list of goods sent by a common carrier, as a railroad, with shipping directions.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of waybill
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
A company rule bars towing waybill locomotives without such couplers, the report said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
The airline clerk, making out a waybill: "Contents?"
From Time Magazine Archive
For most Frenchmen, however, the most important single item in Suzanne's waybill was tough, pompadoured Marcel Cerdan, the idolized middleweight boxing champ who last June dropped his title to Jake LaMotta in Detroit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tell the claim agent there won’t be salvage enough to fill a waybill.
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen
Coachman comes out with his waybill, and puffing a fat cigar which the sportsman has given him.
From Tom Brown's School Days by Hughes, Thomas
Taxes on passenger tickets and cargo waybills would also increase.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had books to keep, freight waybills to make out, messages to receive, dozens of definite things to do.
From Poor White by Anderson, Sherwood
“I’ve heard of a few tricks being played with waybills before to-day, while the load’s on the road.”
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Mitford, Bertram
It was my duty to check the railroad waybills on consignments of coal, to correct the weights, and to make claims for overcharges and shortages.
From Branded by Lynde, Francis
The freight conductor has waybills for all goods which he carries.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Eaton, Seymour
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
