freights 1 of 2

noun

plural of freight
1
as in cargoes
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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2
as in prices
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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freights

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of freight
as in loads
to place a weight or burden on it took six hours to freight the cargo airplane

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for freights
  1. cargoes
  2. prices
  3. loads
  4. payloads
  5. costs
  6. burdens
  7. loadings
  8. fees
Noun
  • While Hudson is the latest patron of the pants, Oprah Winfrey, Brittany Mahomes, Jennifer Lopez, and Jennifer Lawrence have also forgone basic bottoms in exchange for cargos at one point or another.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • Edison SpA, the Italian electric utility unit under French group EDF, said QatarEnergy extended a force majeure notice, withholding four additional LNG cargoes scheduled for Italy’s Adriatic LNG terminal until early September.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 July 2026
Definition of cargoes
Noun
  • Following the 2008 housing meltdown, private equity firms such as Blackstone bought thousands of single-family homes at bargain prices and turned them into rentals.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • There were early concerns people weren’t turning up for the event because of the high ticket prices and the difficulty of obtaining visas for citizens of some countries.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Definition of prices
Verb
  • Intelligent power switches can monitor electrical flow while controlling loads more efficiently.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
  • The app decrypts the file and loads it into the appropriate editing program.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
Definition of loads
Noun
  • In JadePuffer, Sysdig caught useful traces because the payloads were self narrating and included natural language reasoning, target ranking and unusually verbose comments.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Japan seeks to catch up with the technology Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been using for several years to cut launch costs of delivering payloads into space.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Definition of payloads
Noun
  • Four refineries have closed in California so far this decade because of environmental regulations and high costs.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • Because of rising costs, only one phase was ever completed, and the land next door that was supposed to be Phase Three continues to sit vacant.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 14 July 2026
Definition of costs
Verb
  • The legal scholars watching this expect the eventual fights to turn on old questions, whether a state law unduly burdens interstate commerce, whether federal rules quietly override it.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • The renter’s credit is part of a larger but stalled push to rebalance Connecticut’s upside-down tax system, one the state’s own analysts conclude excessively burdens the poor and middle class.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026
Definition of burdens
Noun
  • Aramco ​had resumed crude oil loadings on ​Friday at its Ras Tanura terminal in the Gulf after they were halted ​for nearly four months.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 June 2026
  • As Fed chair, Greenspan relished poring over obscure economic data, from monthly boxcar loadings to steel production, all in a bid to assess where the economy was going.
    — Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 22 June 2026
Definition of loadings
Noun
  • Birch Gold Group has affordable management, setup and storage fees.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 15 July 2026
  • Sokolowski said its expansion of a recent ultra-low budget program got city departments to waive their fees and reduce costs by between 50-60 percent, costs that can balloon to thousands of dollars.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
Definition of fees
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