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   Freight

   /frāt/

   

   noun

   • 1. goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft: "a decline in the amount of freight carried by rail" Similar cargoloadhaulconsignmentdeliveryshipmentmerchandisegoodsrare:ladingfreightage
   • ▪ the transport of goods by truck, train, ship, or aircraft: "the truck-based system can outperform air freight at distances of up to seven hundred miles" Similar transportationtransportconveyancefreightagecarriagecarryingportagehaulagedistributiondeliverytraffic
   • ▪ a charge for transport by freight: "a bill indicating that the freight has been paid"
   • 2. a freight train: US "I can hear the regular wail of the twelve o'clock freight from my house"
   • 3. a load or burden: "these warm winds deposit their freight of moisture in showers of rain"

   verb

   • 1. transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft: "the metals had been freighted from the city"
   • 2. be laden or burdened with: "each word was freighted with anger"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘hire of a ship for transporting goods’): from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German vrecht, variant of vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with fraught.

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