'Freight' definitions:
Definition of 'freight'
(from WordNet)
noun
Goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment]
noun
Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates [syn: freight, freightage]
noun
The charge for transporting something by common carrier; "we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper" [syn: freight, freightage, freight rate]
verb
Transport commercially as cargo
verb
Load with goods for transportation
Definition of 'Freight'
From: GCIDE
- Freight \Freight\ (fr[=a]t), a. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car. [1913 Webster]
- Freight agent, a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward, or deliver goods.
- Freight car. See under Car.
- Freight train, a railroad train made up of freight cars; -- called in England goods train. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Freight'
From: GCIDE
- Freight \Freight\ (fr[=a]t), n. [F. fret, OHG. fr[=e]ht merit, reward. See Fraught, n.]
- 1. That with which anything is 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) (a) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired. (b) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Freight transportation, or freight line. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Freight'
From: GCIDE
- Freight \Freight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Freighting.] [Cf. F. freter.] 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'freight'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air express,
- air-express,
- airfreight,
- airlift,
- airmail,
- Amtrak,
- asportation,
- bag,
- baggage,
- baggage train,
- bale,
- barrel,
- bear,
- bear hard upon,
- bearing,
- bottle,
- box,
- brim,
- burden,
- burdening,
- burthen,
- cable railroad,
- can,
- cargo,
- carload,
- carriage,
- carry,
- carrying,
- cartage,
- cartload,
- charge,
- charging,
- chock,
- choo-choo,
- cog railroad,
- cog railway,
- conduct,
- congest,
- consign,
- consignment,
- convey,
- conveyance,
- cram,
- crate,
- cross,
- crowd,
- cumber,
- cumbrance,
- deadweight,
- delivery,
- difficulty,
- disadvantage,
- dispatch,
- drag,
- drayage,
- drop a letter,
- duty,
- el,
- electric,
- electric train,
- elevated,
- embark,
- embarrassment,
- encumber,
- encumbrance,
- expedite,
- export,
- express,
- express train,
- expressage,
- ferriage,
- fill,
- fill to overflowing,
- fill up,
- flier,
- fly,
- forward,
- freight train,
- freightage,
- freighter,
- funicular,
- goods,
- goods train,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- haul,
- haulage,
- hauling,
- heap,
- heap up,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- imposition,
- inconvenience,
- incubus,
- incumbency,
- interurban,
- jam,
- jam-pack,
- lade,
- lading,
- lift,
- lighterage,
- lightning express,
- limited,
- load,
- loading,
- local,
- lug,
- luggage,
- lugging,
- lumber,
- mail,
- manhandle,
- mass,
- metro,
- milk train,
- millstone,
- monorail,
- onus,
- oppress,
- oppression,
- overburden,
- overfill,
- overload,
- overtax,
- overtaxing,
- overweight,
- overweighting,
- pack,
- pack away,
- packing,
- pad,
- parliamentary,
- parliamentary train,
- passenger train,
- payload,
- penalty,
- pile,
- pocket,
- portage,
- porterage,
- post,
- poundage,
- press hard upon,
- pressure,
- rack-and-pinion railroad,
- railroad train,
- railway express,
- ram in,
- rattler,
- remit,
- rest hard upon,
- rolling stock,
- sack,
- saddle,
- saddling,
- satiate,
- saturate,
- send,
- send away,
- send forth,
- send off,
- ship,
- shipload,
- shipment,
- shipping,
- shuttle,
- shuttle train,
- special,
- stack,
- store,
- stow,
- streamliner,
- stuff,
- subway,
- supercharge,
- superincumbency,
- surcharge,
- surfeit,
- take,
- task,
- tax,
- taxing,
- telpherage,
- tonnage,
- top off,
- tote,
- toting,
- trailerload,
- train,
- trainload,
- transmit,
- transport,
- transportation,
- transshipment,
- trouble,
- truckage,
- truckload,
- tube,
- underground,
- vanload,
- wad,
- waft,
- waftage,
- wagonage,
- way train,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon,
- weight,
- whisk,
- white elephant,
- wing