freight
The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
Noun 4 meanings
The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.
“The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.”
Payment for transportation.
“The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.”
A burden, a load.
Verb 4 meanings
To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
To transport (goods).
To load or store (goods, etc.).
To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
Etymology
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”)).
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FREIGHT at a glance
FREIGHT has 7 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (F 4 + R 1 + E 1 + I 1 + G 2 + H 4 + T 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,117 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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