Synonym: burden, cargo, goods, load, shipment. Similar words: eighth, height, eighty, reign, highlight, foreign, foreigner, sovereignty. Meaning: [freɪt] n. 1. goods carried by a large vehicle 2. transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates 3. the charge for transporting something by common carrier. v. 1. transport commercially as cargo 2. load with goods for transportation.
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121 Edwin worked fitfully at his menial job of freight clerk, continuing to disappoint his family.
122 The bait, in the form of the unlocked freight car, had been taken.
123 This has involved reconstruction of an orbital freight line and construction of a 600m link between Am zola and Abando.
124 Passenger services ceased in the early 1950s and freight services in 1981.
125 On 1 May 1956 this branch finally closed(sentencedict.com), having been opened to passenger and freight traffic in 1863.
126 It must also offer access to competing third-party freight operators' on fair commercial terms'.
127 The wind still managed to find a way through the hairline crack, whistling eerily around the interior of the freight car.
128 After jumping nimbly from the freight car she closed the door, picked up her holdall, and hurried towards the fence.
129 The scare began just after 5am when some one smelt acid as a freight train pulled into the station.
130 The crash occurred when a freight train collided with an incoming passenger train.
131 He stayed at hobo camps, including those in Albany and Richmond, and lived hopping freight trains throughout the Western states.
132 Another woman corrected him, saying she heard the coat was found a bit farther down the freight train track.
133 Its loss-making state rail network was split into six geographically-based companies and one freight company in 1987.
134 The crash happened after a high-speed mainline train smashed into a freight service, near Selby, north Yorkshire.
135 A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt
136 Moreover, the large city or freight terminals had to have massive capacity to cope with intense seasonal pressures.
137 It was a vital part of the railway freight business.
138 This bond requirement is not a substitute for the normal liability insurance carried by freight forwarders.
139 This was a one-off event as the freight yard tracks are due to be lifted later in the summer.
140 Police, responding to security threats[Sentencedict], will also be able to search non-residential premises and unaccompanied freight at ports.
141 A Manhattan team, meanwhile, sent its bikes ahead and hopped a freight train west.
142 Customs occupy a self-contained area within accommodation provided for freight companies requiring offices without warehousing.
143 Prices begin at $ 15, 825 with freight for a two-door model with rearwheel drive only.
144 Other freight and passenger operators will have open access rights to this network.
145 His smuggling operation employed shipping containers and sailing vessels to move the freight, officials said.
146 In Arizona, approximately 93 % of the freight traffic and 95 % of the passenger traffic is interstate.
147 The road lobby once again reigns supreme with rail freight raising prices to meet absurd Government targets.
148 From 1942 a class of more powerful 0-6-0 freight locomotives also gave excellent results.
149 Encouraging increases were also recorded in freight and cargo. Commercial vehicles rose from 322,572 in 1989 to 333,732 last year.
150 By 1856 the canals were carrying half as much freight as the railways.