Freight

Definition: Freight

Freight

Noun

1. Goods carried by a large vehicle.

2. Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates.

3. The charge for transporting something by common carrier; "we pay the freight," or "the freight rate is usually cheaper".

Verb

1. Transport by freight.

2. Load with goods for transportation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "freight" was first used: 1228. (references)

Economics

Shipping

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Freight

Contents

Noun: contents; cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload, shipload; cup of, basket of; (receptacle) of; inside.; stuffing, ullage.

Location

Billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag.

Transference

Transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage, carting, cartage; shoveling; Verb: vection, vecture, shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion; transposition; (interchange); traction.

Vehicle

Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.

Crosswords: Freight

You'd be surprised what you can send by air freight. (Bad Company; writing credit: Michael Parness)

Feelin' like a freight train (Break Stuff; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

Freight Fright (1965)

Night Freight (1955)

Fast Freight (1929)

The Fast Freight (1926)

Fast Freight (1921)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Okayamaken Freight Transportation Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Freight Links Express Holding Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The World Market for Railway or Tramway Freight and Maintenance Cars: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Freight Train Cars (Enthusiast Color Series) (reference)

• How to Start a Freight Brokerage Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success (reference)

• I Spy a Freight Train: Transportation in Art (I Spy Series) (reference)

• Manager's Guide to Freight Loss and Damage Claims (2nd Edition) (reference)

• My Freight Train (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Air Freight Directory (reference)

• Coordinated Freight Classification (reference)

• Freight & Trading Weekly (reference)

• Freight Forecast (reference)

• Freight Tariff #24 (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pat Donohue: In Concert at the Freight & Salvage (reference)

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Music

• Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (reference)

• Freight Train Blues: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 4 (reference)

• Freight Train Boogie (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Netbay25 25u Standard Rack Cab with Sidewalls - Cust Pays Freight (reference)

• Rack 10622 22U Crate Customer Pays Freight (reference)

• Smartcell Xr Batery for Matrix Customer Pays Freight (reference)

• Netbay42 42u Ent Exp Rack Cabcustomer Pays Freight (reference)

• APC Netshelter 42U Base With Vented Front Customer Pays Freight (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Ford Kurtz, a young aid, at home in a modified CB&O freight car #25094 Home for a level crew on line from Crawford, Nebraska, to the west. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Black & White photo of men with their freight wagons and mules in Eastern Oregon. Credit: Unknown.

[Hospital railroad freight car used as a ward, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Medical examination of crew of an incoming freight vessel requiring quarantine inspection. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

View on the main deck looking aft from amidships, while she was under construction at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 4 June 1918. Her keel was laid on 20 November 1917 and she was launched on 29 June 1918. Note Freight Lighter # 53 in the center background. Credit: NAVY.

Huddled masses of human freight. Credit: Library of Congress.

The freight cars were opened, we took off our coats and went to work. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jones pays the freight. Credit: Library of Congress.

North Little Rock, Ark., freight depot / Downing's Studio, Stuttgart, Ark. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hammond, Ind., 1942(?), six men inspecting and painting 155 mm. shells at the Pullman Standard Car Plant where freight cars were formerly made--Discs being screwed on shell nose (right foreground) act as wheels to keep them rolling in straight line on pro. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The prices to be paid for coal delivered under these options shall be as follows: (a) For overland delivery, including delivery by barge, the German pithead price to German nationals, plus the freight to French, Belgian, Italian or Luxemburg frontiers, provided that the pithead price does not exceed the pithead price of British coal for export. (reference)

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And along the highway there came a long line of huge freight trucks with red sides

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Business

Value (cost, insurance, freight). (references)

Pulleys and hoists, passenger and freight elevators. (references)

The impact of freight on the final price of products is significant. (references)

Economic History

Dominican Rep

There is also daily freight service to Puerto Rico. (references)

Georgia

In Soviet times most freight was transported by rail. (references)

Bulgaria

It provides freight forwarding and route alternatives. (references)

Political Economy

KUWAIT

This flat rate is applied to the Cost, Insurance and Freight (CIF) value of imported goods. (references)

SPAIN

The license application must be accompanied by a commercial invoice that includes freight and insurance, the C.I.F. price, net and gross weight, and invoice number. (references)

JAPAN

After the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) ruled in 1997 that Japan maintained unfair shipping practices and imposed fines against Japanese ocean freight operators, the Japanese Government pledged to grant foreign carriers port transport licenses and to reform the Japan Harbor Transport Association's prior consultation system, which effectively allocates stevedoring work and restricts new entrants. (references)

Trade

Venezuela

Insurance and freight must be listed separately on the invoice. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Commercial Invoice: Freight and two copies in French are required. (references)

Uruguay

Freight which arrives by the national airline is exempt from the tax. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Use of a freight forwarder (transitaire) is mandatory. (references)

Honduras

Passenger and air freight services are generally reliable. (references)

Saudi Arabia

One rail line carries passengers and freight between Dammam and Riyadh. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "freight": advance freight ♦ air freight ♦ anticipated freight ♦ bill of freight ♦ bulky freight ♦ chartered freight ♦ class freight rate ♦ consolidator of freight ♦ cost and freight ♦ cost insurance and freight ♦ cost insurance freight ♦ cost insurance freight and commission ♦ Dead freight ♦ excess freight ♦ express freight ♦ freight advance ♦ freight aeroplane ♦ freight agent ♦ freight bill ♦ freight car ♦ freight charge ♦ freight charges ♦ freight clause ♦ freight collect ♦ freight company ♦ freight consolidator ♦ freight container ♦ freight depot ♦ freight elevator ♦ freight forward ♦ freight forwarder ♦ freight liner ♦ freight list ♦ freight office ♦ freight paid ♦ freight plane ♦ freight rate ♦ freight space ♦ freight streamer ♦ freight terminal ♦ freight ton ♦ freight traffic ♦ freight train ♦ freight village ♦ freight yard ♦ international transport freight costs and other charges message ♦ joint freight rate ♦ less than carload freight ♦ owner's trading freight ♦ package freight ♦ prepaid freight ♦ volume freight charge. Additional references.

Beginning with "freight": freight-all-kinds rate, freight-carrying, freight-forwarders, freight-forwarding, freight-only, freight-station, freight-yard.

Ending with "freight": air-freight.

Containing "freight": all-freight mail service, all-freight service.

Albanian

transportoj (carry, convey, dray, float, move, portage, ship, take place, transfer, transport), transport mallrash (freightage, shipping), pagesë transporti (cartage), ngarkoj (attribute, burden, charge, commission, cumber, delegate, encumber, entrain, entruck, impose, impute, Lade, load, saddle, ship, weight), ngarkesë mallrash. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقل (alien, alienate, assign, bandy, carriage, carry, carry forward, communicate, convection, convey, conveyance, copy, deliver, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, propagate, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, shift, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transfuse, transit, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), ‏حمل بالبضائع, ‏حمولة (burden, capacity, cargo, lading, load, loading, tonnage, weight), ‏عبوة, ‏رسم أو اجرة الشحن, ‏شحنة (charge, freightage, lading, ration, shipment), ‏شحن (charge, forward, freightage, haulage, load, pack, truck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

транспорт (carrying, portage, transport, transportation), товаря (burden, charge, load, pack, weight), товарен влак (goods train, rattler), товарен (pack), товар (bulk, burden, burthen, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freightage, goods, imposition, lading, load, loading, tax, tie, tote, weight), натоварвам (authorise, authorize, load, saddle, truck, weight, weight down), бреме (burden, burthen, charge, deadweight, drag, drain, encumbrance, exaction, fardel, incubus, load, onus, tax, tie, weight), превозвам (bear, convey, put across, ship, transport, wheel), превоз (carriage, conveyance, freightage, haul, portage, transport, transportation), пренасям (carry, carry over, convey, transport), давам под наем (hack, hire, job, lease, let, rent). (various references)

Chinese 

貨物運輸 , 货物 (Cargo, Cargoes). (various references)

Czech

náklad (cargo, circulation, impression, lading, load, number of copies, outlay, shipment), dopravné (freightage, haulage, portage), doprava (carriage, conveyance, to the right, traffic, transfer, transport, transportation). (various references)

Danish

fragt (cargo, carriage charge, freightage, load), lastning (cargo, lading, load, loading), ladning (blasting charge, cargo, charge, cycle, electric charge, electricity, explosive charge, load, loading, round, round of charges), befordringspris (carriage charge). (various references)

Dutch

franco (duty and insurance paid, free, free your works), vrij van kosten en risico (duty and insurance paid, free, free your works), vrachtprijs (carriage charge, fares), vrachtloon (cargo, load), vrachtgeld (freightage), vracht (burden, cargo, charge, load), bevrachting (cargo, chartered freight, load), belading (cargo, charging, filling, lading, load, loading, on-loading, to charge, to fill). (various references)

Farsi 

کرایه کشتی , کرایه (Fare, Hire, Lease, Portage, Rent), گرانبارکردن (Impose, Load, Overweigh), حمل کردن (Bear, Carry, Convey, Haul, Port, Porter, Transport, Wage), غنی ساختن , بارکشتی , باربری , بار (Audience, Brunt, Burden, Cargo, Encumbrance, Entrance, Onus). (various references)

Finnish

rahti (carriage, carriage paid, freight prepaid, rate). (various references)

French

fret (freight charges, freightage), cargaison (freightage). (various references)

German

fracht (cargo, carriage, freightage, payload), verfrachten (bundle, bundle off, ship, ship off, ship out, transport), ladung (batch, burden, cargo, charge, lading, load, shipment, stowage, summons). (various references)

Greek 

φορτίο (burden, cargo, jag, lading, load, onus, shipment). (various references)

Hebrew 

מטען (baggage, burden, cargo, charge, dock, dunnage, lading, load, luggage, stowage), עומס (burden, cargo, load), הובלה (carriage, conveying, haulage, lead, transport, transportation). (various references)

Hungarian

teheráru (slow goods), rakomány (air cargo, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, fraught, lading, load). (various references)

Indonesian

muatan (cargo, charge), memuati. (various references)

Italian

carico (airfreight, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, charged, filled, fiscal burden, fraught, lading, live, load, loaded, shipload, shipment, tax, weight), nolo (hire, rent), noleggiare (charter, engage, hire, hire out, lease, rent, rent out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

貨物便 , 貨物 (cargo, money or assets), 船荷 (cargo), 積み荷 (load). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふなに (cargo), つみに (load), かぶつ (cargo, drinking feast, money or assets), かもつびん, かもつ (cargo). (various references)

Korean 

운임 (Fare). (various references)

Manx

lughtey (burden, lade, load, loading, weigh down), lughtaghey (charging, fill, filling, lading, loading, stow, stowage, write down), lught (batch, batch of numbers, bulk, burden, cargo, cast, complement, content, load, train, train of personage), goaill lught er boayrd. (various references)

Norwegian

frakte, frakt (haul), last (cargo, lading, load). (various references)

Pig Latin

eightfray.(various references)

Portuguese

frete (fare, freightage, portage, porterage, truckage), fretar (charter, hire, make a contract), fretamento (affreightment, charter, freightage, organization chart), fardo (bale, bundle, burden, fardel, pack, package, parcel, tax, truss, weight), transporte (affect, bearing, carriage, carry-over, conduction, conveyance, driving, flush, haul, haulage, portage, porterage, rapture, trance, transit, transport, transportation, transposition), transportar (barge, carry, carry forward, cart, convey, drive, elate, tote, transfer, transport, transpose), tarifa de transporte (carfare), sobrecarregar (burden, encumber, flood, overburden, overcharge, overcrowd, overlay, overload, overweight, overwhelm, saddle, supercharge, tax, weight), despachar (bill, book, cashier, despatch, dispatch, expedite, forward, send, send off, ship, speed), custo do transporte, carreto (carriage, cartage, pinion, portage, truckage), carregar (bear, burden, carry, carrying, charge, convey, download, heap, lade, load, shot, stoke, tamp, tote, wear), carregamento (ammunition, burden, cargo, charging, draught, filling, lading, load, shipment), carga (batch, bulk, burden, charge, charging, cloud-burst, downfall, fardel, freightage, job, lading, load, loading, refill, rush, task, weight). (various references)

Romanian

fraht (bill of consignment, letter of advice), transport pe uscat (land carriage), preţ de închiriere a unui vas, navlu, navlosi (charter), lua cu chirie (engage), da cu chirie (hire), cheltuieli de transport (haulage), închiriere a unui vas, închiria (hack, hire, job, lease, occupy, rent, take, tenant), încãrcãturã (burden, cargo, charge, goods, load, loading, shipment, weight), încãrca un vas. (various references)

Russian 

фрахтовать, фрахт фрахтовый, грузовой (loading), грузить (embark, lade, load, ship), груз (bulk, burden, cargo, consignment, embarkation, incubus, jetsam, lading, load, loading, plate, stowage, weight, weighting), поклажа (load, luggage). (various references)

Scottish

frachd, farradh (fare), far (bring, upon, upon : far an d' fhàg mi e, where, where I left it, with). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vozarina (cartage, fare, portage), teretni, teret (ballast, burden, cargo, drag, encumbrance, heft, imposition, load, onus, tax, weight), prevoz robe. (various references)

Spanish

flete (cargo, charter, freightage, lading). (various references)

Swedish

frakt (burden, cargo, carriage, charge, goods, load, packing, shipload, shipment, shipping), last (burden, cargo, freightage, load, loading, vice), frakta (carry, convey, haul, transport). (various references)

Turkish

yüklemek (ascribe, burden, charge, embark, encumber, fasten, fasten on, father, foist, hand over, heap, impose, impute, inflict, Lade, lay, lay on, lay smth. at one's door, load, offload, overlay, pin, pitch, plant, put, put down, saddle, shift, stack, store, weight), yük (bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, fardel, goods, haul, impedimenta, imposition, impost, incident, lading, load, loading, onus, pile, plummet, shipload, shipment, stowage, strain, sumpter, tax, weight), taşıma ücreti (cartage, portage, shipping and handling fee, truckage), taşıma (carriage, carrying, conduction, conveyance, haulage, portage, removal, shipping, traction, transfer, transport, transportation), navlun (carriage, cartage, portage, transportation), nakliye (carriage, carrying, forwarding, haulage, shipping, transport), nakletmek (bear, bring forward, carry, carry forward, carry over, communicate, convey, graft, implant, recount, remove, route, ship, transfer, transplant, transport, wear), göndermek (address, bundle off, conjure away, consign, dispatch, expedite, forward, order away, refer, relegate, remit, route, send, send away, send forth, send off, send out, ship, ship off, transmit). (various references)

Turkmen 

яьk (cargo, load). (various references)

Ukrainian

фрахтувати (charter), фрахт (lading), тягар (baggage, burden, clog, encumbrance, load, onus, tax, weight), вантажити (load, ship), перевезення вантажів (freightage). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc chuyên chở hàng bằng đường thuỷ. (various references)

hlast. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "freight": freightage, freightages, freighted, freighter, freighters, freighting, freights. (additional references)

Words ending with "freight": airfreight. (additional references)

Words containing "freight": airfreighted, airfreighting, airfreights. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Freight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Creigh, feigh, feight, feigt, Feringhi, Ferringhi, fraacht, frait, freigght, freigh, freigth, freught, friegh, frieght, friegth, reight, riiight. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fighter, refight.

-1 letter: fright.

-2 letters: eight, fight, firth, frith, girth, grief, grift, grith, ither, refit, right, their, thief, tiger.

-3 letters: fire, fret, frig, frit, gift, girt, grit, heft, heir, hire, reft, reif, rife, rift, rite, thir, tier, tire, tref, trig.

-4 letters: eft, erg, eth, feh, fer, fet, fie, fig, fir, fit, get, ghi, gie, git, her, het.

+1 letter: fighters, freights, frighted, frighten, prefight, refights.

+2 letters: fathering, firefight, firelight, flightier, foresight, freighted, freighter, frightens, gearshift, infighter, preflight.

+3 letters: affrighted, airfreight, farsighted, feathering, firefights, firelights, foresights, freightage, freighters, freighting, frightened, furthering, gearshifts, gunfighter, infighters, overflight, prizefight, refighting.

+4 letters: airfreights, bullfighter, etherifying, farthingale, featherings, firefighter, flichtering, foresighted, freightages, frightening, gunfighters, overflights, prizefights, triggerfish.

+5 letters: airfreighted, bullfighters, farsightedly, farthingales, featherlight, firefighters, firefighting, foresightful, forgathering, freethinking, godfathering, guitarfishes, prizefighter, rightfulness, weightlifter.