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Webster 1913 Edition
Freight
1.
That with which anything is fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.;
as, a
freight
of cotton; a full freight
.2.
(Law)
(a)
The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
(b)
The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
Wharton.
3.
Freight transportation, or freight line.
Freight
(frāt)
, Adj.
Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight;
as, a
. freight
carFreight agent
, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods.
– Freight car
. See under
– Car
. Freight train
, a railroad train made up of freight cars; – called in England
goods train
.Freight
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Freighted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Freighting
.] [Cf. F.
freter
.] To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight;
as, to
freight
a ship; to freight
a car.Webster 1828 Edition
Freight
FREIGHT
,Noun.
1.
The cargo, or any part of the cargo of a ship; lading; that which is carried by water. The freight of a ship consists of cotton; the ship has not a full freight; the owners have advertised for freight; freight will be paid for by the ton.2.
Transportation of goods. We paid four dollars a ton for the freight from London to Barcelona.3.
The hire of a ship, or money charged or paid for the transportation of goods. After paying freight and charges, the profit is trifling.FREIGHT
, v.t.1.
To load with goods, as a ship or vessel of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another. We freighted the ship for Amsterdam; the ship was freighted with flour for Havana.2.
To load as the burden.Definition 2024
freight
freight
English
Noun
freight (uncountable)
- Payment for transportation.
- The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.
- 1881, Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Vol. 6, p. 412:
- 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.
- Goods or items in transport.
- The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.
- Transport of goods.
- They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.
- (figuratively) Cultural or emotional associations.
- A wedding ring is small, but it has massive emotional freight.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
payment for transportation
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goods
transport of goods
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Verb
freight (third-person singular simple present freights, present participle freighting, simple past and past participle freighted)
- (transitive) To transport (goods).
- To load with freight. Also figurative.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, 1965,
- Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning.
- 2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19:
- English National Opera is a title freighted with implications, and that first adjective promises not only a geographical reach, but a linguistic commitment too.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, 1965,
Derived terms
Translations
to transport goods
to load with freight
Anagrams
See also
-
Freight in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.