(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.
Gateway
Definition:
(n.) A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
Example Sentences:
(1) George Osborne told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "We have got to make some tough decisions, but the priority is healthcare, children's education, early years provision and the big infrastructure developments like Crossrail, Mersey Gateway, the synchrotron, broadband.
(2) Paying over the odds, each was determined to build what they imagined would be the ultimate gateway to the Games.
(3) [Burma] is considered the front line in the battle against artemisinin resistance as it forms a gateway for resistance to spread to the rest of the world,” said Woodrow, who led the Oxford study.
(4) Using land lines, modems and network gateways, many such quite distinct computer programs or databases can be made accessible from a single terminal.
(5) Kangerlussuaq, the "gateway to Greenland" in the southwest, reached 24.6C on 10 July, just as the record melt reported by Nasa was under way.
(6) And ecstasy was a breakthrough, a gateway to a new way of living and being.
(7) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
(8) A principal gateway for integrating the autonomic responses are a small collection of neurons in a region of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL), containing a cluster of neurons of the C1 adrenergic cell group, the C1 area.
(9) But in a worrying step towards greater censorship, the junta announced on Wednesday that it would establish a "national internet gateway" to better monitor websites and social media platforms, and told local media it would be requesting Facebook, YouTube and the chat application Line to ban user accounts with "illegal" content, the news portal Prachatai reported .
(10) Together they form the gateway to the vast Oil Crescent, a series of oilfields stretching hundreds of miles through the Sahara containing Africa’s largest reserves.
(11) It was a highly provocative gesture that did nothing to assuage fears that Morsi’s election marked the gateway to a more extremist Egypt.
(12) Putting BBC3 online feeds into Hall's desire to ramp up the iPlayer, which he sees not as a useful spin-off for catching up on programmes a viewer might have missed, but a "gateway" which (younger) viewers and listeners will increasingly use to access all of the BBC's programmes.
(13) Treasury insiders said they were already involved in talks with 30 companies over the proposed projects, including proposals for the £600m Mersey Gateway project, a six-lane toll bridge between Widnes and Runcorn.
(14) Kinshasa was the gateway for all the riches of what was then called the Belgian Congo, as rubber, gems, minerals, ivory and exotic woods made their way out of the country.
(15) Each child needs a health assessment and subsequent care.” There are already 4,029 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Britain, most of them in the “gateway” authorities of Kent, Croydon and Hillingdon.
(16) The town itself also marks a strategic gateway connecting Damascus to the Syrian south.
(17) Those "other radical groups," as Oliver dismissively referred to them, must be the more than 60 first nations (aboriginal bands) of British Columbia that have signed a declaration saying "we will not allow the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines or other similar tar sands projects to cross our lands, territories and watersheds, or the ocean migration routes of Fraser River salmon."
(18) The outer gateway was repeatedly struck by shells as the rebels tried to capture the citadel, though again each side accused the other of causing the damage.
(19) The closest rail is the Docklands Light Railway station at Tower Gateway (handy for east London).
(20) It may also become a gateway to other information networks.