freight

Definition:
1. Goods carried by a large vehicle.
2. Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates.
3. The charge for transporting something by common carrier.
4. Transport commercially as cargo.
5. Load with goods for transportation.

freight

Use 'freight' in a sentence:

1. The freight elevator in the building was broken.
2. SCI-Arc's campus occupies a former freight depot in LA's Downtown arts district.
3. This freight must be carefully handled when loading.
4. We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.
5. Improvements in road construction and sailing had occurred, but shipping heavy freight over land remained expensive, even with the use of rivers and canals wherever possible.
6. Energy-efficient Driving Strategy for Freight Trains Based on Power Consumption Analysis.
7. They also purr like a freight train passing.
8. We must also add freight-in.
9. Between 1985 and 1996, for example, America's freight railways dramatically reduced their employment, trackage, and their fleets of locomotives—while increasing the amount of cargo they hauled.
10. Freight Forwarding Business Model Analysis and System Based on SOA.
11. Steamboats were not only faster but also transported upriver freight for about one-tenth of what it had previously cost on hand-propelled keelboats.
12. An Application of Client/ Server Network in Air Freight.
13. Study on Model of Demand of Freight Transportation Based on Regional Industrial Character.
14. Power industry margins have also been cut by higher freight costs.
15. The squeeze on freight capacity is even worse.
16. Do you want to use our freight forwarding agent?
17. Study on the Transportation Quality Management of Road Freight Enterprise Based on PDCA Theory.
18. Freight for shipment from Shanghai to Hongkong is to be charged to your account.
19. Now it’s like a freight train.
20. Discussion on Road Freight Agency and Loading Information System Based on Internet.
21. Trains are taking a lot of freight that used to be routed via trucks.
22. Analysis of Railway Freight Transport Safety Level Based on Fuzzy Cluster Method.
23. The brakeman concatenated two freight cars.
24. Freight transport could thus use some fresh ideas.
25. On the customs declaration, the sender labeled the freight as agricultural machinery.
26. On the customs declaration, the sender labelled the freight as agricultural machinery.
27. A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.
28. Study of Railway Dangerous Freight Safety Transport Based on Risk Analysis.
29. I send all that to my warehouse in China in the same freight container I use for the furniture.
30. Next year, after a series of mergers is completed, just four railroads will control well over 90 percent of all the freight moved by major rail carriers.
31. Freight trains travel slowly on upgrades into the hills.
32. Robert's father worked in a freight company.
33. Computer manufacturers in Japan or Texas will not face hugely bigger freight bills if they import drives from Singapore rather than purchasing them on the domestic market.
34. For Freight Collect shipments, the charge will be billed to the consignee.
35. Demand analysis and forecast on the freight transportation of Three Gorges Project.
36. The vast expansion in international trade owes much to a revolution in the business of moving freight.
37. A new railway operating plan has increased the country's passenger and freight train capacity, according to China Railway Corp.
38. This freight must be carefully handled.
39. The freight is included in the account.
40. They freighted goods to japan.
41. Environmental pressures are strengthening the case for waterborne freight.
42. The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century.
43. First came the steamboat; although flatboats and keelboats continued to be important until the 1850's steamboats eventually superseded all other craft in the carrying of passengers and freight.
44. Trains can reach the channel more quickly than trucks, and freight cars can be transported to Burland by barges that typically cross the channel in an hour.
45. France derives 16% of revenue from air freight.
46. From these ports the grain is freighted down to Addis Ababa.
47. Double-stack trains are taking a lot of freight that used to be routed via trucks.
48. Each word was freighted with anger.
49. The truck carried many tons of freight.
50. 90% of managers wanted to see more freight carried by rail.
51. Today rail freight services are facing marginalisation, with just 8% of market share.
52. Companies engaged in shipping, trucking, rail freight, delivery, and logistics have all been reporting better than expected results.
53. Almost all the world's freight goes by sea, rail, and road.
54. The railways will carry a far higher proportion of freight traffic.