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as in cargo
a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported
shipped a large freight of steel to the manufacturer
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as in price
the amount of money that is demanded as payment for something
it's all very well to suggest increased government services, but who will pay the freight for them?
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as in to load
to place a weight or burden on
it took six hours to freight the cargo airplane
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Recent Examples of freight
Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 18 June 2025
Military equipment has been arriving in D.C. for days
Heavy military equipment has been rolling into the city for days, coming in by freight or carried through city streets on large, flat-bed trucks.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 14 June 2025
David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
So Duster has been freighted with heavier elements.
—Judy Berman, Time, 12 May 2025
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Noun
The bank also wants to boost intra-African trade by leveraging the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement to reduce freight costs and non-tariff barriers, and harmonize product standards.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 18 June 2025
Military equipment has been arriving in D.C. for days
Heavy military equipment has been rolling into the city for days, coming in by freight or carried through city streets on large, flat-bed trucks.
—Alana Wise, NPR, 14 June 2025
Verb
The director’s observation of the mutable contracts between sisters, and even more so, fathers and daughters, is intensely affecting in a movie freighted with melancholy but also leavened by notes of surprising humor.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2025
So Duster has been freighted with heavier elements.
—Judy Berman, Time, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for freight
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Satellite images from Maxar Technology also captured a line of cargo trucks parked outside Fordow in the days before strikes, stirring speculation of whether Iran had moved some of its nuclear equipment.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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July 3 — Roscosmos’ Soyuz to launch with supply cargo to the International Space Station out of Kazakhstan.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
27 June 2025
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These people work hard and are in no way asking for handouts, but also often cannot afford the high prices of private insurance, which will be driven up further by cuts.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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The price, far higher than the prior record of about $6 billion for their historic rivals, the Boston Celtics, showcases both the breakneck growth in valuations of sports teams, as well as the Lakers’ unique draw.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
20 June 2025
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During the summer of 2024, Iran exported fewer than 70,000 barrels per day through that alternate route and stopped loading cargoes after September 2024, according to the EIA.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
23 June 2025
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That's why this bill is loaded up with priorities of GOP lawmakers and the Trump administration.—
Allison Pecorin,
ABC News,
23 June 2025
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President Donald Trump has indicated states should carry more of the burden, relieving the backlogged Federal Emergency Management Agency.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
Christian Science Monitor,
20 June 2025
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The Sunshine State—especially its southern region—has been brewing a condo crisis over the past year, as the coming into effect of a law requiring inspections and reserves for condo buildings has led to significant financial burden for owners.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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Covering much of the $120 million production costs himself, with money from his celebrated winery, the filmmaker’s latest premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival to wildly mixed reactions.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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President Donald Trump, who nominated Waller as a governor during his first term in office, has been hectoring the Fed to lower interest rates to reduce borrowing costs on the $36 trillion national debt.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
20 June 2025
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The goal is a 10% increase in booster performance over the boosters used on Artemis I. That would equate to SLS being able to carry another 11,000 pounds of payload to lunar orbit.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2025
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Those payloads include private Earth-observing satellites, such as Capella Space's Capella-17 synthetic aperture radar craft, and Starfish Space's Otter Pup 2, which will attempt to perform the first-ever commercial docking in LEO later this year.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
23 June 2025
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Application fees for top programs can reach $275 per school.—
Leadership Brainery,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Owners in each of those three cities reportedly paid record $250 million expansion fees, five times the get-in cost from two years ago.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
1 July 2025
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Four cameras followed Tucker during his walk in from a loading dock located, fittingly, in the right-field corner.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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In Brooklyn, at the back entrance of the Barclays Center, Breanna Stewart, forward for the New York Liberty, walks through the industrial tunnel near the loading buses wearing a crisp white buttoned vest and tailored cutoff suit shorts.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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“Freight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freight. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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