meaning of freight
1. 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.
2. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
3. The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
4. Freight transportation, or freight line.
5. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
6. 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.
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freight | freightage | freighted | freighter | freighting | freightless |
