freight

Pronunciation

• (UK) (US) enPR: frāt, IPA ^(key): /freɪt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

Singular freight

Plural freights

1. Freight is a payment for transportation.

   The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.

2. Freight is goods that are being transported.
   • Synonyms: cargo and luggage

   The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.

Related words

• freighter

Verb

Plain form freight

Third-person singular freights

Past tense freighted

Past participle freighted

Present participle freighting

1. (transitive) If you freight something, you transport goods to their destination.