freight

n.

1. Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.
2. A burden; a load.
3. 1. Commercial transportation of goods.
   2. The charge for transporting goods. Also called freightage.
4. A railway train carrying goods only.

tr.v., freight·ed, freight·ing, freights.

1. To convey commercially as cargo.
2. To load with goods to be transported.

[Middle English fraught, freight, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht.]

Transportation charge the company pays when it receives goods from a supplier. It is a separate account that is added to purchases in determining the cost of goods and ending inventory. See also Freight-Out.

noun

Something carried physically: burden¹, cargo, haul, load. Sports impost. See heavy/light, over/under.

verb

1. To place a burden or heavy load on: burden¹, charge, cumber, encumber, lade, load, saddle, tax, weight. See over/under.
2. To make or become full; put as much into as can be held: charge, fill, heap, load, pack, pile. See full/empty/capacity.
3. To cause to be filled, as with a particular mood or tone: charge, imbue, impregnate, permeate, pervade, saturate, suffuse, transfuse. See full/empty/capacity.

n. 1. goods transported by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.

2. the transport of goods by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.

3. a charge for such transport.

4. in full freight train a train of freight cars: sugar and molasses moving by freight.

v.

transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft: the metals had been freighted from the city | ships freighting to Dublin.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

The price or compensation paid for the transportation of goods by a carrier. Freight is also applied to the goods transported by such carriers.

The liability of a carrier for freight damaged, lost, or destroyed during shipment is determined by contract, statute, or tort law.

The responsibility for the payment of freight is a subject of a term of a sales contract between the buyer and seller of the goods to be shipped. When a contract contains a c.f. & i. provision, the buyer accepts liability for paying the cost of freight in addition to the costs of the goods and insurance on them.

IN BRIEF: A load of goods shipped by train, truck, ship or airplane.

The human brain is like a railroad freight car — guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. — Unknown.

Tutor's tip: They had a terrible "fright" (extreme or sudden terror) when their car stalled on the tracks with a train loaded with "freight" (cargo) was bearing down on them.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fragt, forsendelsesomkostning, godstog
v. tr. - laste med fragt, fragte

Nederlands (Dutch)
vracht, last, vrachtgoederen, goederentrein, vrachtprijs, vrachtvervoer, kosten, betekenis, normaal vrachtvervoer (geen expres), bevrachten, als vracht vervoeren, belasten, (ver)huren voor vracht-/ passagiersvervoer

Français (French)
n. - fret, marchandises, transport, frais de (port)
v. tr. - transporter, charger, affréter (un navire)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Fracht
v. - verfrachten, chartern, befrachten

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (οικον.) φορτίο (υπό μεταφορά), εμπορεύματα, ναύλωση, κόμιστρο, (καταβλητέος) ναύλος (φορτίου)
v. - (οικον.) ναυλώνω, φορτώνω, μεταφέρω με κόμιστρο

Italiano (Italian)
trasportare, caricare, carico

Português (Portuguese)
n. - frete (m) (carga)
v. - fretar

Русский (Russian)
фрахтовать, перевозка грузов, фрахт, товарный

Español (Spanish)
n. - carga, cargamento, flete
v. tr. - transportar, cargar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - frakt
v. - lasta, hyra, frakta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
船货, 货运, 运费, 装货, 运送, 使充满

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 船貨, 貨運, 運費
v. tr. - 裝貨, 運送, 使充滿

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 화물 운송, 화물
v. tr. - 화물을 싣다, 수송하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 貨物運送, 貨物運賃, 貨物, 船荷, 運賃
v. - 運送する, 積む

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) شحن , حموله (فعل) يشحن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הובלת סחורות אטית וזולה יותר, מיטען, דמי הובלה, שכירת כלי תחבורה ימי או אווירי להעברת סחורות‬
v. tr. - ‮טען סחורה, שינע סחורה, שכר אוניה‬

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