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freight
noun
1 freight
Goods carried by a large vehicle.
synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment.
Roget 270:
transfer,
transference;
translocation,
elocation†;
displacement;
metastasis,
metathesis;
removal;
remotion†,
amotion†;
relegation;
deportation,
asportation†;
extradition,
conveyance,
draft,
carrying,
carriage;
convection,
conduction,
contagion;
transfer
etc.
(of property)
783.
transit,
transition;
passage,
ferry,
gestation;
portage,
porterage†,
carting,
cartage;
shoveling
etc.
v.;
vection†,
vecture†,
vectitation†;
shipment,
freight,
wafture†;
transmission,
transport,
transportation,
importation,
exportation,
transumption†,
transplantation,
translation;
shifting,
dodging;
dispersion
etc.
73;
transposition
etc.
(interchange)
148;
traction
etc.
285.
[Thing transferred]
drift.
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Roget 190:
contents;
cargo,
lading,
freight,
shipment,
load,
bale,
burden,
jag;
cartload†,
shipload;
cup of,
basket of,
etc.
(receptacle)
191
of;
inside
etc.
221;
stuffing,
ullage.
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Dutch: lading, last, transport, vracht
Polish: transport, ładunek
2 freight
Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates.
synonym: freightage.
Dutch: cargo, vracht, scheepsvracht
Polish: fracht
3 freight
The charge for transporting something by common carrier:
— We pay the freight.
— The freight rate is usually cheaper.
synonyms: freight rate, freightage.
Polish: fracht
verb
1 freight
Transport commercially as cargo.
Roget 184:
place,
situate,
locate,
localize,
make a place for,
put,
lay,
set,
seat,
station,
lodge,
quarter,
post,
install;
house,
stow;
establish,
fix,
pin,
root;
graft;
plant
etc.
(insert)
300;
shelve,
pitch,
camp,
lay down,
deposit,
reposit†;
cradle;
moor,
tether,
picket;
pack,
tuck in;
embed,
imbed;
vest,
invest in.
billet on,
quarter upon,
saddle with;
load,
lade,
freight;
pocket,
put up,
bag.
inhabit
etc.
(be present)
186;
domesticate,
colonize;
take root,
strike root;
anchor;
cast anchor,
come to an anchor;
sit down,
settle down;
settle;
take up one's abode,
take up one's quarters;
plant oneself,
establish oneself,
locate oneself;
squat,
perch,
hive,
se nicher [Fr.],
bivouac,
burrow,
get a footing;
encamp,
pitch one's tent;
put up at,
put up one's horses at;
keep house.
endenizen†,
naturalize,
adopt.
put back,
replace
etc.
(restore)
660.
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2 freight
Load with goods for transportation.
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