freight
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation 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.
- (figurative) Cultural or emotional associations.
- 2007, B. Richards, Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (page 116)
- This may seem to be a quite unrealistic aim, until we note that some contributors to the emotional public sphere – advertising creatives – are very aware of the emotional freight that simple words may carry, […]
- 2007, B. Richards, Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (page 116)
- French: fret, cargaison (maritime), chargement (rare)
- German: Fracht
- Portuguese: carga
- Russian: груз
- Spanish: carga, flete, cargamento
- French: fret
- Russian: перево́зка
- Spanish: transporte de mercancias
freight (freights, present participle freighting; 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.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, 1965,
- Spanish: cargar
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