Freight

Quick meaning: Freight is a noun meaning (uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.

Meaning

(uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Payment for transportation.
2. A burden, a load.
3. Cultural or emotional associations.
4. (countable, originally US, rail transport) Ellipsis of freight train.
5. To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
6. To transport (goods).
7. (uncountable) The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.

Example Sentences

The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.

The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.

Had the ship earned her freight? To earn freight there must, of course, be either a right delivery, or a due and proper offer to deliver the goods to the consignees.

Thus Apple Trees, whoſe Trunks are ſtrong to bear Their ſpreading Boughs, exert themſelves in Air: Want no supply, but ſtand ſecure alone, Not truſting foreign Forces, but their own: 'Till with the ruddy freight the bending Branches groan.

Word Forms

• freights
• freighting
• freighted
• freightest
• freightedst
• freighteth

Synonyms for freight

Depending on context, synonyms include load, consignment, payload, lading, shipment, loading.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include freightage, payload, shipment, cargo, lading, loading.

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