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freight

/fɹeɪt/noun, verb1 syllable

Freight means: goods carried by a large vehicle.

Synonyms for freight9

noun, as in goods carried by a large vehicle

cargo, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment

noun, as in the charge for transporting something by common carrier

freightage, freight rate

noun, as in transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

freightage

What does freight mean?5

noun

1

goods carried by a large vehicle

2

the charge for transporting something by common carrier“we pay the freight”

3

transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

verb

1

transport commercially as cargo

2

load with goods for transportation

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with freight?44

three syllables

interstate
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All 44 rhymes for freight, grouped by syllable

Freight in a sentence

  • The locomotive was pulling a long line of freight cars.CK
  • We found that there is no information about freight or insurance in your quote.AlanF_US
  • How much freight did you carry last trip?_undertoad
  • How much is the freight on this box?_undertoad
  • They're taking the freight out of the train car._undertoad
  • Algeria wants to increase the amount of freight transported by train.Amastan
  • It sounded like a freight train was running through the neighborhood.Amastan
  • That isn't a passenger train; it's a freight train.rul

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of freight

as a noun

plural
freights

as a verb

past tense
freighted
present participle
freighting
third-person singular
freights
past participle
freighted