Freight (n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation |
Freight (n.) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired. |
Freight (n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. |
Freight (n.) Freight transportation, or freight line. |
Freight (a.) Employed in the transportation of freight |
Freight (v. t.) To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another |
freight / freightage transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates |
cargo / lading / freight / load loading / payload / shipment / consignment goods carried by a large vehicle |
freight car a railway car that carries freight |
freight elevator / service elevator an elevator designed for carrying freight |
freight liner / liner train a long-distance express freight train between industrial centers and seaports with facilities for rapid loading and unloading of goods |
freight train / rattler a railroad train consisting of freight cars |
freight agent an employee of a freight carrier who directs the receipt and delivery of goods |
freight / freightage / freight rate the charge for transporting something by common carrier, "we pay the freight", "the freight rate is usually cheaper" |
freight load with goods for transportation |
air-ship / airfreight / air-freight transport (cargo) by air |