freights in English

noun

1

goods transported by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.

According to transport experts, one freight train carries the equivalent of 75 lorry loads, reducing road congestion and pollution levels.

synonyms: goods, cargo, load, consignment, delivery, shipment, merchandise

2

a train of freight cars.

sugar and molasses moving by freight

3

a load or burden.

Nevertheless, Kit's prosperity was burdened with the freight of vigilance.

verb

1

transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.

the metals had been freighted from the city

noun

goods, cargo, load, consignment, delivery, shipment, merchandise
transportation, transport, conveyance, carriage, portage, haulage
shipment, consignment, lading, payload, load, cargo, loading
freight rate, freightage
freightage

Use "freights" in a sentence

1. Bombing, wildstyles, freights, handstyles, and any regional graffiti.

2. Down by the river, a train chugged along, slow and determined like all the nighttime freights.

3. Container Booking / Bulk Chartering Charter Haus AG's clients are often diversified with exposure to both dry bulk and container freights

4. Britain and the United States has been directed not entirely to the engine department, but to the hulls and to the production of a large class of ships, which are Admissibly cheaper in proportion to size and expense of running when compared with smaller vessels, if they are always employed and have full freights and passage.