freight Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun goods carried by a large vehicle
    load; cargo; lading; shipment; loading; consignment; payload.
  2. noun transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
    freightage.
  3. noun the charge for transporting something by common carrier
    freightage; freight rate.
    • we pay the freight
    • the freight rate is usually cheaper
  4. verb transport commercially as cargo
  5. verb load with goods for transportation

WordNet

Freight noun
Etymology
F. fret, OHG. frht merit, reward. See Fraught, n.
Definitions
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.
  2. (Law) (a) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired. (b) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods. Wharton.
  3. Freight transportation, or freight line.
Freight adjective
Definitions
  1. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
Freight transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. freter.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Freighted; present participle & verbal noun Freighting
Definitions
  1. To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

Webster 1913