the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The charge for transportation; the expense of carriage.
n. The transportation of freight.
n. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Freight; lading; cargo: also used figuratively.
n. The carrying or transportation of merchandise, etc.
n. Money paid for the carriage of goods or merchandise: charge for the transportation of goods. See freight, n., 2.
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n. transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
n. the charge for transporting something by common carrier
Word Usage
"Office of Maritime Development, so that we may have the right to claim our share in the purchase and sale freightage, which is the only by which we can maintain the Merchant Marine."