freight money
1freight — The price or compensation paid for the transportation of goods by a carrier. Name also applied to goods transported by such carriers. See also freight rate. @ dead freight Money payable by a person who has chartered a ship and only partly loaded… …
2freight — The price or compensation paid for the transportation of goods by a carrier. Name also applied to goods transported by such carriers. See also freight rate. @ dead freight Money payable by a person who has chartered a ship and only partly loaded… …
3freight — I. v. a. Load, lade, charge, burden or burthen. II. n. 1. Cargo, lading, load, burden. 2. Freightage, freight money, charge for freight …
4freight insurance — noun : insurance for indemnifying the policyholder against loss of the freight money if the shipowner cannot complete his contract of carriage because of unavoidable peril …
5Freight train — or goods train is a series of freight cars hauled by a locomotive on a railway, ultimately transporting cargo between two points as part of the logistics chain. Trains may haul bulk, containers or specialized cars. Under the right circumstances,… …
6Freight company — Freight companies are companies that specialise in the moving (or forwarding ) of freight, or cargo, from one place to another. These companies are divided into several variant sections. For example, international freight forwarders ship goods… …
7freight — early 13c., fraght, from M.Du. or M.L.G. vracht, vrecht, meaning originally cost of transport and probably from a lost Old Frisian word, from P.Gmc. *fra aihtiz absolute possession, property (Cf. O.H.G. freht earnings ), from *fra , intensive… …
8Freight rail transport — For the children s book by Donald Crews, see Freight Train (book); for the song by Elizabeth Cotten, see Freight Train (song); for the album by Alan Jackson, see Freight Train (album). American freight service …
9Freight interline system — The freight interline system is a system of relations between trucking companies, rail, and airline networks. Interline freight is cargo that moves between different transportation companies on its journey from origin to consignee. An interline… …
10freight — A transportation term meaning either goods being transported, and/or charges incurred for such transport. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * ▪ I. freight freight 1 [freɪt] noun [uncountable] 1. TRANSPORT goods carried in large quantities by… …
