(n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
(n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
(n.) Purulent matter.
(n.) Trashy talk.
(n.) A man of bad character.
(n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
(n.) A romping, saucy girl.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We are very sorry if customers have not received their baggage and we will reunite them as quickly as possible."
(2) Cafferkey and her colleagues were cleared to go through to the baggage area but Cafferkey later returned to the screening area after a doctor in their volunteer group raised concerns.
(3) If he makes the move from NYPD commissioner to Homeland Security secretary, Kelly will carry with him to Washington some very hefty baggage.
(4) Passengers have been flying from Gatwick without their luggage after a breakdown in the airport’s baggage system delayed check-ins and caused chaos in terminals.
(5) But Souness would be carrying plenty of baggage back to Ewood Park and today he confirmed he had not been approached.
(6) The given reasons included health and safety, avoiding excessive queues in arrivals halls and baggage crises, and potential delays in flight schedules.
(7) Baggage handling systems were also affected: some passengers who did manage to get on the small number of flights to take off from the UK reported reaching their destinations without their luggage.
(8) But if it was anything more than that we would tell you politely to go away.” He said Ryanair had spent the year eliminating a lot of the policies passengers did not like, allowing more carry-on baggage, allocated seating and cutting punitive charges.
(9) As a result it is much more relaxing than airports where you feel like a piece of baggage on its way to the carousel.
(10) The Liberals made attack ads targeting Shorten’s “weakness” and Labor’s “baggage”.
(11) His view is that an Englishman should have the role and he dislikes the baggage that goes with the job.
(12) Kiarostami opted for Japan because it felt far away, neither Muslim nor western; a fresh adventure with no baggage attached.
(13) Fabienne Vansteenkiste , Belgium, 51 Vansteenkiste worked for the baggage team at Brussels airport.
(14) She inspires people Ian Murray “I just think she has been a good deputy leader; I think she’s fresh, she doesn’t carry any baggage of the past,” Murray said.
(15) One tweeted: "Great holiday but sour taste after the debacle in baggage reclaim last night.
(16) The Fianna Fáil identity may be all about history, but – as a folksy party of the pragmatic right – it has none of the ideological baggage that weighs Labour down in the UK.
(17) The third man caught on airport security cameras, wearing a cream jacket and pushing a baggage trolley into the departures hall alongside Laachraoui and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, is now the subject of a manhunt.
(18) Baggage The airline has also pledged to reunite passengers with their baggage via courier free of charge.
(19) After sitting on the tarmac for an hour and a half, we disembarked.” It came a day after passengers at Gatwick airport faced chaotic scenes and long queues due to a baggage system problem.
(20) Instead, the Los Angeles Clippers can now be an actual basketball team, without the baggage of their soon-to-be-former owner.
Freight
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.
(n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.
(n.) Freight transportation, or freight line.
(a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.
(v. t.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Supporters of the construction argued in a 2006 presentation that they could capture 4.5% of world maritime freight traffic and earn a 22% profit margin by 2025, although their cost estimates at that time were much lower than those of the current project.
(2) Former Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson told 60 Minutes last week about that, when it comes to approving or rejecting the military’s request for drone strikes, “to say no is like stepping in front of a 90-car freight train.” An important new report released by the Open Society Justice Initiative this week also shows that - despite the Obama administration’s internal requirements for drone strikes that supposedly require a “near certainty” that civilians won’t get killed - the government quite often just disregards its own rules, which has led to the death of dozens of civilians in Yemen in the past two years.
(3) British freight transport chiefs said the industry was losing £750,000 a day because of the huge problems lorry drivers have faced this summer trying to cross the Channel.
(4) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
(5) Port of Dover (@Port_of_Dover) We sincerely regret the impact to the travelling public, freight & the Dover Community of a Calais situation which is beyond our control.
(6) 'Half the people who boycott air-freighted beans think they are doing some good for the environment.
(7) Serious public opposition to practices such as fracking and tar sands extraction, as well as the building of major pipelines has lead to a hasty surge in the transport of oil by freight.
(8) 2) Many items on the checklist received a poor evaluations, indicating that there are many ergonomic problems with freight-container tractors.
(9) "So we have all the trophies you describe (Freight Rover Trophy, the Sherpa Van Trophy, the Leyland DAF Cup, the Autoglass Trophy and the Auto Windscreens Shield) apart from the LDV Vans (but we do have the Simod Cup)."
(10) Today Indians cannot live without the railways; the Indian authorities have reversed British policies and they are used principally to transport people, with freight bearing ever higher charges in order to subsidise the passengers (exactly the opposite of British practice).
(11) The timetable is severe: the initial “dedicated freight corridor” has been given a deadline for completion of 2017.
(12) These findings were considered to originate from the fact that the freight-container tractors had many ergonomic problems and the daily driving hours of many drivers were estimated to exceed the allowable vibration exposure time of the ISO.
(13) The new school opened nine years later with £2m from the sponsor – the late Sir Clive Bourne, a local self-made man who prospered from freight shipping – new premises designed by an award-winning architect, new pupils and teachers, nearly all young enough to be able and willing to work, albeit for enhanced pay, the punishing hours that Wilshaw demands.
(14) One member, Lord Berkeley, who chairs the Rail Freight Group, says: "I think it's a very big deal.
(15) Most parts of the state went without power for hours on Wednesday while scores of freight and passenger trains were cancelled.
(16) Watch the clip here One more movie, Unstoppable , again with Washington – this time trying to prevent a toxic freight train from crashing – was released in 2010.
(17) 5) The foregoing results indicate that ergonomic improvement of the freight-container tractors is a matter of urgency.
(18) The market drop is overdue.” In a fresh sign that the Chinese economy has weakened, business magazine Caixin reported on Tuesday that China’s national rail freight volumes declined by a tenth in 2015, their biggest ever annual decline.
(19) When Claudie Le Bail joined tens of thousands of Breton "red cap" demonstrators protesting in Carhaix at the end of November to oppose regional job losses and a green tax on road freight, she took her 79-year-old mother with her.
(20) The description of east Jerusalem as ‘occupied east Jerusalem’ is a term freighted with pejorative implications, which is neither appropriate nor useful,” Brandis told the Senate estimates hearing.