| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  fr t |
| NOUN: | 1. Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo. 2. A burden; a load. 3a. Commercial transportation of goods. b. The charge for transporting goods. Also called freightage. 4. A railway train carrying goods only. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: freight·ed, freight·ing, freights
1. To convey commercially as cargo. 2. To load with goods to be transported. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English fraught, freight, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht; see aik- in Appendix I.
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