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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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The majority of cargo volumes from those ports are destined for Dubai, which has become a hub for the movement of freight with feeder services in the Persian Gulf, South Asia and East Africa.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
17 June 2025
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Videos published after 6 a.m. showed the aftermath of a strike on a military base and a cargo terminal in the western Kermanshah region, which borders Iraq, over 250 miles from Tehran and 167 miles from Baghdad.—
Katie Polglase,
CNN Money,
13 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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Now, while tariffs and deportations constrain the supply of goods and services to increase prices, reduction in taxes makes more cash available to consumers.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
20 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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Over the course of a year, the U.S. company imports thousands of pounds of these bearings, paying a tariff each time a batch of them is loaded off a container ship.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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This additional step would be a burden not only on families but on the IRS, which has been the subject of severe staff cuts by the Trump administration.—
Cory Turner,
NPR,
20 June 2025
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True spare capacity inside OPEC clocks in near three million barrels a day and sits inside the same blast zone, leaving diplomacy—so far untested in open conflict—to carry most of the burden.—
Guney Yildiz,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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The team could go up to $14 million on him in theory; in practice, the Suns’ apron issues and the cost of a daunting repeater penalty might slow their roll on that front.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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Chase is set to raise the annual fee for its coveted Sapphire Reserve card, leaving cardholders and potential applicants wondering, Is the extra cost worth it?—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
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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Perhaps; by being put on the waiver wire, other teams can take him freely for only a nominal fee.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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Previous studies have concluded bag bans and fees do shift customer behavior, resulting in fewer single-use bags distributed at grocery stores.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
19 June 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 2 Jul. 2025.
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