Freight: Definition and part of speech

Freight

  1. a. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
  2. 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.
  3. n. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
  4. n. The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
  5. n. Freight transportation, or freight line.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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