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Meaning freight meaning

What does freight mean?
Definitions in simple English

freight Noun

— Freight is a payment for transportation. The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal. — Freight is goods that are being transported. The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.

freight Verb

— If you freight something, you transport goods to their destination.

freight

— noun (= cargo) goods carried by a large vehicle — noun transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates — noun (= freight rate) the charge for transporting something by common carrier we pay the freight the freight rate is usually cheaper — verb load with goods for transportation — verb transport commercially as cargo

Synonyms freight synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as freight?

freight English » English

cargo load lading freightage fare shipment goods burden charter baggage transport loading carriage shipping cost payload hire haul freight rate freight charges consignment wages vessel trucking truckage transporting transporter-erector-launcher transportation fee transportation transport movement transport cost transport charges storage shipping charge shipping ship cargo ship rent remittance portage passage-money pack onus net weight nacelle merchandise jag insurance holding haulage goods transport

Topics freight topics

What do people use freight to talk about?
States Quantity Plural

Group of things
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by land

Railroad

Conjugation freight conjugation

How do you conjugate freight?

freight · verb

Examples freight examples

How do I use freight in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The locomotive was pulling a long line of freight cars.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
After some freight cars were derailed, services were suspended on the Chuo Line.
This aircraft company deals with freight only.
That aircraft company deals in freight only.
How much is the freight on this box?
That elevator is for freight only.

Movie subtitles

We can make some sort of a living carrying freight.
Say, maybe this winter we can hop a freight to Florida.
I've thrown more business their way than any freight agent in town.
Have you any freight trains. going east this afternoon or early this evening?
Huh? I said, what's the idea, riding into the freight yard?
Well that is the son of tuff old Arin Blake, who made his fortune hawling freight through the Cumberland Gap in the 30's.
They hid him in a freight car in the outskirts of Paris.
Yeah. I haul freight for old Pat Fosler.
Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world.
Why, in the freight car that night, you told me you weren't.
Martinelli really had hauled freight in a hurry.
So he jumps on his freight car and heads that way.
Money's getting shorter every day. and soon we'll be right back where we were, on the bum again. pushing guys for dimes, sleeping around in freight cars.
Got your package of freight wrapped for shipment?
You got a bunch of freight for me put aboard at St. Louis?
I freight whatever they send me, and I mind my own business.
You're freight. My name's Jack McCall.
What did you come up on, the freight elevator?
It's the number of the boxcar in the BLW freight yards.
Gentlemen, I have here the figures on the declining river freight.
Now, pull your freight.
Stay away from the freight yards and stick to the highway.
Our favorite trysting place was on the freight deck among canvas-covered automobiles.
You've been buying coal, paying freight and coking at your plant.
So at 1:15, when a slow freight train going south crossed the bride we were on it, in between the cars. Then we dropped off in the middle of the bridge and planted the bomb.
You haul your freight out of here.
Look, big steamer. Bearing her precious human freight to the farthest flung outposts of the Empire.
Well, I'm telling all four of you to haul your freight or I'll have the cops on your neck. Go on, get out of here.
I'll meet you in the freight yard in 15 minutes.
I ain't taking my feet out of this cow juice for any freight train.
They'll run us off streets, keep us out of freight yards.
We can't beat them. You duck down to the freight yard.
I'm sick of being hungry and cold, sick of freight trains.
What do you charge for freight?
I'll throw your stuff in the freight department.

News and current affairs

Many day-to-day cross-border services, ranging from freight transport to hairdressing, face major barriers and restrictions.
Migrants who have made it as far as France are living in tents near Calais, waiting for a chance to get to England by scrambling aboard a freight train passing through the Channel Tunnel.
They should also address the lack of uniform standards across Europe's internal borders; for example, there are 11 separate signaling systems for rail freight in the EU-15.
The military owns airlines and freight companies, petrochemical factories, power generation plants, sugar mills, cement and fertilizer plants, construction firms, banks and insurance companies, advertising agencies, and more.
The project includes nine large industrial zones, high-speed freight lines, three ports, six airports, a six-lane expressway, and a 4,000-megawatt power plant.

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