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Freight   /freɪt/   Listen
Freight

noun
1.
Goods carried by a large vehicle.  Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment.
2.
Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates.  Synonym: freightage.
3.
The charge for transporting something by common carrier.  Synonyms: freight rate, freightage.  "The freight rate is usually cheaper"
verb
(past & past part. freighted; pres. part. freighting)
1.
Transport commercially as cargo.
2.
Load with goods for transportation.



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"Freight" Quotes from Famous Books



... landed he met Lloyds' agent, and told him what a valuable freight he had just shipped. That gentleman merely remarked that both ships were underwritten in Sydney by the owners; but the freight was insured ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... forget the absent ones, but in the garden, in the barn, in the fields, and the woodshed chamber, he prays in his mongrel dialect that He who holds the wind in the hollow of His hand will give to the treacherous deep charge concerning the precious freight it bears. He does not say it in those words, but his untutored language, coming from a pure heart, is heard by the Most High. And so the breeze blows gently o'er the bark thus followed by black John's prayers—the skies look brightly down upon it—the blue waves ripple ...
— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes
... land-animal, to that now vulgar adventure, has sometimes found moralists to condemn it. A vessel's true excellence is more deeply conditioned than the ship-wright may imagine when he prides himself on having made something that will float and go. The best battle-ship, or racing yacht, or freight steamer, might turn out to be a worse thing for its specific excellence, if the action it facilitated proved on the whole maleficent, and if war or racing or trade could be rightly condemned by a philosopher. The ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... kind of freight outfit that is used to bring the great loads across the desert? Then I'll tell you about the one we camped near. Freight wagons are not made precisely like others; they are very much larger and stronger. Several ...
— Letters on an Elk Hunt • Elinore Pruitt Stewart
... a fine, though it was a very close shave. I was quite a youngster, but anything but a green hand at the business, for I had accompanied my father on many occasions on which he did not bring home merely soles or longue-nez for freight. Just before the occasion of which I am about to tell you there had been a gale, and during the worst of the blow a Norwegian vessel had jettisoned her deck load of spruce poles, and we being out fishing a day or two ...
— Jethou - or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles • E. R. Suffling


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