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freight
English
Etymology
From Middle English freyght, from Middle Dutch vracht, Middle Low German vrecht (“cost of transport”), from Proto-West Germanic *fra- + *aihti, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fra- (intensive prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possession”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey?- (“to possess”), equivalent to for- +? aught. Cognate with Old High German fr?ht (“earnings”), Old English ?ht (“owndom”), and a doublet of fraught. More at for-, own.
Pronunciation
- enPR: fr?t, IPA(key): /f?e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
freight (usually uncountable, plural freights)
- Payment for transportation.
- The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.
- 1881, Federal Reporter, 1st Series, Vol. 6, p. 412:
- Had the ship earned her freight? To earn freight there must, of course, be either a right delivery, or a due and proper offer to deliver the goods to the consignees.
- Goods or items in transport.
- Transport of goods.
- They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.
- (rail transport, countable) A freight train.
- (figuratively) Cultural or emotional associations.
- 2007, B. Richards, Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (page 116)
- This may seem to be a quite unrealistic aim, until we note that some contributors to the emotional public sphere – advertising creatives – are very aware of the emotional freight that simple words may carry, […]
- 2007, B. Richards, Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror (page 116)
Synonyms
- cargo
- luggage
Derived terms
Related terms
- fraught
Translations
Verb
freight (third-person singular simple present freights, present participle freighting, simple past and past participle freighted)
- (transitive) To transport (goods).
- To load with freight. Also figurative.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, 1965,[1]
- Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning.
- 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, 1965,[1]
Derived terms
- freighted
- freighting
Related terms
- fraught
Translations
See also
- Freight in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- fighter, refight
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freightless
English
Etymology
freight +? -less
Adjective
freightless (not comparable)
- Without freight.
Anagrams
- flightseers
freightless From the web:
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