Definition of freight Freight

/fɹejˈt/ - [freyt] - freight

We found 22 definitions of freight from 8 different sources.

What does freight mean?

Noun Plural: freights
freight - transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
		freightage
		shipping, transport, transportation conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
freight - the charge for transporting something by common carrier; "we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper"
		freightage, freight rate
		charge per unit, rate amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis; "a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5"
freight - goods carried by a large vehicle
		cargo, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment
		merchandise, ware, product commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of products"
Verb freights, freighting, freighted
freight - transport commercially as cargo
		transport move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
		air-freight, air-ship, airfreight transport (cargo) by air
freight - load with goods for transportation
		charge saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"

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freight (n.)
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.
freight (n.)
The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
freight (n.)
The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
freight (n.)
Freight transportation, or freight line.
freight (a.)
Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
freight (v. t.)
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.

freight
The goods transported by a vehicle such as a truck, a ship, a train, an airplane, etc.

freight
frāt, n. the lading or cargo, esp. of a ship; the charge for transporting goods by water.—v.t. to load a ship.—ns. Freight′age, money paid for freight; Freight′er, one who freights a vessel. [Prob. Old Dut. vrecht, a form of vracht.]

freight
or fraight of a ship (affretement) the hire, or a part thereof, usually paid for the carriage and conveyance of goods; or the sum agreed, upon between the owner and the merchant for the hire and use of a vessel.
freight
also implies the lading or cargo which she has aboard.

freight
By former English maritime law it became the mother of wages, as the crew were obliged to moor the ship on her return in the docks or forfeit them. So severely was the axiom maintained, that if a ship was lost by misfortune, tempest, enemy, or fire, wages also were forfeited, because the freight out of which they were to arise had perished with it. This harsh measure was intended to augment the care of the seamen for the welfare of the ship, but no longer holds, for by the merchant shipping act it is enacted that no right of wages shall be dependent on the earning of freight; in cases of wreck, however, proof that a man has not done his utmost bars his claim. Also, for the burden or lading of a ship. (See DEAD-FREIGHT.) Also, a duty of 50 sols per ton formerly paid to the government of France by the masters of foreign vessels going in or out of the several ports of that kingdom. All vessels not built in France were accounted foreign unless two-thirds of the crew were French. The Dutch and the Hanse towns were exempted from this duty of freight.--To freight a vessel, means to employ her for the carriage of goods and passengers.