freight /fɹeɪt/noun 6verb 5adjective 1forms 8phrases 1 noun6 •Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway. •(figurative) A burden, a load.Now homeward through the thickening hubbub, where See, among less distinguishable shapes, […] the stately and slow-moving Turk, With freight of slippers piled beneath his arm! — 1799 •The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation. •Ellipsis of freight train.They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense. •Payment for transportation.The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal. •(figurative) Cultural or emotional associations. verb5 •To transport (goods). •(US) Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.Experience freightest for a better life. The folk that comes not with us have offended In that for which one Caesar, triumphing, Heard himself called in contumely, 'Queen.' — 1867 •(figurative) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load. •To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.[T]hey who freight their wealth upon a hundred vessels are more liable, Morton, are they not, to the peril of the winds and waves, than they who venture it only upon one? — 1829 •To load or store (goods, etc.).Fortune freights not your channel with her hoarded stores, and Pleasure ventures not her silken sails upon your tide; […] — 1829 adjective1 •(no longer used) Freighted; laden. formsfreighted · freightedst · freighting · freighteth · freights · freightest · more freight · most freight Phrases with freight pay the freightTo pay for the cost of transport.
