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freight

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freight  (frt)
n.
1. Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.
2. A burden; a load.
3.
a. Commercial transportation of goods.
b. The charge for transporting goods. Also called freightage.
4. A railway train carrying goods only.
tr.v. freight·ed, freight·ing, freights
1. To convey commercially as cargo.
2. To load with goods to be transported.

[Middle English fraught, freight, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht; see aik- in Indo-European roots.]

freight [frate]
Noun
1.
a. commercial transport of goods
b. the cargo transported
c. the cost of this
2. Chiefly Brit a ship's cargo or part of it
Verb
1. to transport (goods) by freight
2. to load with goods for transport [Middle Dutch vrecht]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.freightfreight - goods carried by a large vehicle
merchandise, product, ware - commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of products"
2.freight - transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
shipping, transport, transportation - the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
3.freight - the charge for transporting something by common carrier; "we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper"
charge per unit, rate - amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis; "a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5"
Verb1.freight - transport commercially as cargo
air-freight, air-ship, airfreight - transport (cargo) by air
transport - move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
2.freight - load with goods for transportation
charge - fill or load to capacity; "charge the wagon with hay"

freight
Translations
Spanish freight [freɪt] n (= goods) → carga (= money charged); flete m;
freight forward → contra reembolso del flete, flete por pagar;
freight inward → flete sobre compras

French freight [freɪt] n (= goods) → fret m, cargaison f (= money charged); fret, prix m du transport;
freight forward → port;
freight inward → port payé par le destinataire

German freight [freɪt] nFracht f;
(money charged) → Frachtkosten pl;
freight forward → Fracht gegen Nachnahme;
freight inward → Eingangsfracht f

Italian freight [freɪt] n (= goods) → merce f; merci fpl (= money charged); spese fpl di trasporto;
freight forward → spese a carico del destinatario;
freight inward → spese di trasporto sulla merce in entrata

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Very well; if you tell a German to send your trunk to you by "slow freight," he takes you at your word; he sends it by "slow freight," and you cannot imagine how long you will go on enlarging your admiration of the expressiveness of that phrase in the German tongue, before you get that trunk.
The party went aboard the steamer, which was a large freight vessel, carrying a limited number of passengers, and late one afternoon swung down New York Bay.
There is some advantage in this; because these twin-tubs being so small they fit more readily into the boat, and do not strain it so much; whereas, the American tub, nearly three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes a rather bulky freight for a craft whose planks are but one half-inch in thickness; for the bottom of the whale-boat is like critical ice, which will bear up a considerable distributed weight, but not very much of a concentrated one.
 
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