Synonyms for freight
freɪtfreight

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1. freightnoun

   Synonyms:
   cargo, luggage

2. freightnoun

   To transport (goods).

   The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.

   Synonyms:
   luggage, cargo

3. freightnoun

   To load with freight.

   The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.

   Synonyms:
   luggage, cargo

4. freightnoun

   Transport of goods.

   They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.

   Synonyms:
   luggage, cargo

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1. freightnoun

   A burden (from the Anglo-Saxon byrthen, from the verb beran, bear) is what one has to bear, and the word is used always of that which is borne by a living agent. A load (from the Anglo-Saxon lād, a way, course, carrying, or carriage) is what is laid upon a person, animal, or vehicle for conveyance, or what is customarily so imposed; as, a two-horse load. Weight measures the pressure due to gravity; the same weight that one finds a moderate load when in his full strength becomes a heavy burden in weariness or weakness. A ship's load is called distinctively a cargo, or it may be known as freight or lading. Freight denotes merchandise in or for transportation and is used largely of transportation or of merchandise transported by rail, which is, in commercial language, said to be "shipped." A load to be fastened upon a horse or mule is called a pack, and the animal is known as a pack-horse or pack-mule.

   Synonyms:
   burden, cargo, charge, clog, encumbrance, incubus, lading, load, pack, weight

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1. cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignmentnoun

   goods carried by a large vehicle

   Synonyms:
   lading, despatch, committal, payload, consignment, lode, dispatch, onus, freightage, burden, loading, commitment, cargo, incumbrance, encumbrance, load, shipment, warhead, freight rate

2. freight, freightagenoun

   transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

   Synonyms:
   freight rate, cargo, lading, loading, consignment, payload, freightage, shipment, load

3. freight, freightage, freight rateverb

   the charge for transporting something by common carrier

   "we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper"

   Synonyms:
   freight rate, cargo, lading, loading, consignment, payload, freightage, shipment, load

4. freightverb

   transport commercially as cargo

5. freightverb

   load with goods for transportation

Matched Categories

1. • Charge
   • Transport
   • Transportation

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1. freightverb

   Synonyms:
   load, lade, charge

2. freightnoun

   Synonyms:
   cargo, lading, load, burden

3. freightnoun

   Synonyms:
   freightage, freight money, charge for freight

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1. freightnoun

   Synonyms:
   cargo, lading, load, freightage

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1. List of paraphrases for "freight":

   cargo, goods, shipping, haulage, transport, merchandise, fret, transportation, shipment, affreightment, lading, airfreight, load

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How to use freight in a sentence?

1. Chief Executive Bradley Jacobs:

   Drayage capacity is tight, often we get requests from customers to move their freight, and if you don't have drayage capacity you could get into bad situations.

2. Jim Cramer:

   I'm a buyer of FedEx Freight.

3. John Kartsonas:

   Rarely you see such a potentially massive disruption, delays, a reduced active fleet supply, slow steaming and port congestion can push freight rates to decade highs, and beyond.

4. Lewie Pugh:

   There is no one out here on America's highways that cares more about highway safety than the American trucker, nobody wants to die behind the wheel or hurt anybody. We just want to deliver our freight and get back home with our families.

5. Ehsan Ul Haq:

   There is a possibility of a swap deal between Rosneft and Essar, which may have got a deep discount in prices to justify freight for a long haul crude.