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freightage
[ frey-tij ]
freightage
/ ˈfreɪtɪdʒ /
noun
- the commercial conveyance of goods
- the goods so transported
- the price charged for such conveyance
Word History and Origins
Origin of freightage1
Example Sentences
Perhaps there’s no reason it would, and yet the absence of historical freightage stands in contrast to Farhadi’s Iranian films, in which the characters are manic with the tensions of an unfinished past.
It is not a plausible source of raw materials: the freightage from Mars to Earth would be too expensive for many centuries to come.
The ground floor of the building appears to have been divided into sections, in which space for the freightage or equipment of each of the several vessels was allotted.
The postillions' whips cracked, the horses scrambled into a trot, and away rolled the carriage, with its precious freightage, along the quaint main street, in the moonlight, toward Paris.
No, Tom, that precious freightage is for a more substantial craft.
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