(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.
Shipping
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ship
(a.) Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment; as, shiping concerns.
(a.) Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods; as, a shipping clerk.
(n.) The act of one who, or of that which, ships; as, the shipping of flour to Liverpool.
(n.) The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
(n.) Navigation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(3) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(4) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(5) Already Britain's electricity is becoming too dependent on gas brought in by ship through the Suez canal.
(6) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(7) The risk for gastric cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease among the workers of the coke shipping department was increased but the SMRs did not reach statistical significance.
(8) The plan to round up some business and ship away seemed sound.
(9) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(10) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(11) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
(12) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
(13) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
(14) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(15) The source of the first outbreak was monkeys shipped from Africa; the origin of the second episode is unclear.
(16) Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
(17) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
(18) An improved membrane filtration procedure for use on board ship to enumerate Escherichia coli and Group D faecal streptococci in marine sediments is described.
(19) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
(20) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.