different between haulage vs freight

English

Etymology

haul +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??l?d?/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?h?l?d?/

Noun

haulage (countable and uncountable, plural haulages)

1. The act of hauling.
   • 1919: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, South (The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917)

     The initial task would be the haulage of stores from Cape Evans to Hut Point, a distance of 13 miles.

2. The business of transporting goods.
3. The charge levied for hauling or pulling a ship or boat.

Translations

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)

1. 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.

2. Goods or items in transport.
3. Transport of goods.

   They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.

4. (rail transport, countable) A freight train.
5. (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, […]

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)

1. (transitive) To transport (goods).
2. 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.

Derived terms

• freighted
• freighting

Related terms

• fraught

Translations

See also

• Freight in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• fighter, refight