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 Definitions of Freight  [ɪt]  

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Definition of 'Freight' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) freight
goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay.

2.  freight
the ordinary means of transport of goods provided by common carriers.

3.  freight
the charges for such transportation.

4.  freight
Slang. cost; price.

5. (v.t.) freight
to load; burden.

6.  freight
to load with goods or merchandise for transportation.

7.  freight
to transport as freight.

Etymology:  (1685–95)

Definition of 'Freight' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment
goods carried by a large vehicle

2. (noun) freight, freightage
transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

3. (verb) freight, freightage, freight rate
the charge for transporting something by common carrier
"we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper"

4. (verb) freight
transport commercially as cargo

5. (verb) freight
load with goods for transportation


Definition of 'Freight' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) freight
goods being carried by plane, ship, train, or truck, or the systems for carrying goods
the costs of carrying freight such long distances; air freight


Definition of 'Freight' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Freight
employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car

2. (noun) Freight
that with which anything in 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

3. (noun) Freight
the sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired

4. (noun) Freight
the price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods

5. (noun) Freight
freight transportation, or freight line

6. (verb) Freight
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


Translation of 'Freight' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: goods being carried from place to place
air-freight; (

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: lading, vrag Arabic flag Arabic: حُمولَه، شحْنَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: превоз на стоки
Brazilian flag Brazilian: carga Czech flag Czech: náklad; nákladní German flag German: die Fracht, Fracht-...
Danish flag Danish: fragt; last; gods; fragt- Greek flag Greek: φορτίο Spanish flag Spanish: carga, mercancías
Estonian flag Estonian: veos Farsi flag Farsi: بار Finnish flag Finnish: rahti
French flag French: fret Hebrew flag Hebrew: מִטעָן Hindi flag Hindi: जहाज या रेल गाड़ी पर लदा
Croatian flag Croatian: teret; teretni Hungarian flag Hungarian: szállítmány Indonesian flag Indonesian: muatan barang
Icelandic flag Icelandic: farmur; frakt Italian flag Italian: carico, merce Japanese flag Japanese: 貨物 (の)
Korean flag Korean: 운송화물 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: krovinys Latvian flag Latvian: krava; kravas-
Malay flag Malay: muatan barang Dutch flag Dutch: vrachtgoed Norwegian flag Norwegian: frakt(gods), last
Polish flag Polish: ładunek Persian flag Persian: بار Pashto flag Pashto: بارول، نقلول (دكښتۍ په ذر
Portuguese flag Portuguese: carga Romanian flag Romanian: (de) marfă Russian flag Russian: фрахт
Slovak flag Slovak: náklad; nákladný Slovenian flag Slovenian: tovor; tovoren Serbian flag Serbian: tovar
Swedish flag Swedish: frakt Thai flag Thai: สินค้าที่ขนส่ง Turkish flag Turkish: yük
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (運輸的)貨物 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: вантаж Urdu flag Urdu: ایک جگہ سے دوسری جگہ بھیج
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: hàng hoá chuyên chở Chinese flag Chinese: (运输的)货物

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