Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vehicle, especially a ship, used for carrying freight.
- noun A shipper of cargo.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who freights or charters a ship for the transportation of goods or merchandise; a shipper.
- noun One who sends goods by land or by sea, either for himself or for others. See
freight , n., 2. - noun A ship or vessel engaged in the carrying-trade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
- noun One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
- noun One for whom freight is transported.
- noun A vessel used mainly to carry freight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
- noun One employed in receiving and forwarding
freight . - noun One for whom freight is transported.
- noun A
vessel used mainly to carry freight; acargo ship .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cargo ship
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Examples
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•The freighter is blown up just after a group of Oceanic survivors takes off from the deck in a helicopter flown by Frank Lapidus.
'Lost': When are we? 2009
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We were left with the strange impression that the doctor on the freighter is still alive, at least in Freighter Time, yet has already washed up dead on the island.
The Tail Section » Episode 4.9 “The Shape of Things to Come” Afterthoughts 2008
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Russian oil billionaire and owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, is in talks to take a controlling interest in Italian freighter operator, Ocean Airlines.
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Attorney's Office to prosecute the organization rather than just the activists who boarded the APL Jade freighter is a sea change in policy, and a conviction would throttle free speech everywhere ...
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Then came yet another blip, this one identified as a freighter, which went on to launch a missile at the planet.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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Then came yet another blip, this one identified as a freighter, which went on to launch a missile at the planet.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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Then came yet another blip, this one identified as a freighter, which went on to launch a missile at the planet.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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Then came yet another blip, this one identified as a freighter, which went on to launch a missile at the planet.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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Then came yet another blip, this one identified as a freighter, which went on to launch a missile at the planet.
Creative Couplings John S. Drew 2005
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Ben is trying to tell Jack that if he calls the freighter everyone on the Island will be killed.
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