freight

CEFRC1

/fɹeɪt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Goods transported by ship, plane, train, or truck.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.

Examples

  • After some freight cars were derailed, services were suspended on the Chuo Line.

  • The locomotive was pulling a long line of freight cars.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /fɹæɪt/
  • /fɾeit/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Payment for transportation.

  2. The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.

  3. A burden, a load.

More examples

In context

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

  • The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.

  • They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.

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Origin

noun

From Late Middle English freight, freght, freyght [and other forms], a variant of fraught, fraght (“transport of goods or people, usually by water; transportation fee; transportation facilities; cargo or passengers of a ship; (figuratively) burden; ballast of a ship; goods; a charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, and Middle Low German vrecht (“cargo, freight; transportation fee”), from Old Saxon frāht, frēht, from Proto-West Germanic *fra- (from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’)) + *aihti (from Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possessions, property”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)). The English word...