waybill
Americannoun
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waybills
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a list of goods sent by a common carrier, as a railroad, with shipping directions.
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Aeroflot issued a second air waybill, which doesn’t include any reference to Kraemer Mining or the origin of the goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
A new air waybill is issued for the flight between Malé and Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
A company rule bars towing waybill locomotives without such couplers, the report said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
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
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He plucked down the microphone—exactly like somebody picking up an interoffice telephone—and reported the waybill number and description of the case that had been an extra bomb.
From Space Platform by Murray Leinster
Air waybills, a cargo manifest and emails between logistics companies demonstrate how the strategy works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Journal found two addresses for Freight Care—one on air waybills and another in the country’s official business registry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The documents reviewed by the Journal—air waybills, a cargo manifest, and emails between logistics companies—paint a picture of how the system in the Maldives works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Taxes on passenger tickets and cargo waybills would also increase.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The freight conductor has waybills for all goods which he carries.
From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Seymour Eaton
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