freight

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1. freight - Noun

2. freight - Adjective

3. freight - Verb

Meaning

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.

The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.

Freight transportation, or freight line.

Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

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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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! Mariah Carey

CHICAGO Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. Carl Sandburg

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit. Hesiod

If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse. Lalu Prasad Yadav

All freight lightens, said the skipper, when he threw his wife overboard. German Proverb

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