Word Finder - freights

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Payment for transportation.

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The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.

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Goods or items in transport.

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The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.

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Transport of goods.

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They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.

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A freight train.

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Cultural or emotional associations.

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To transport (goods).

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To load with freight. Also figurative.

Now if we add together all these savings in the rate of rail and ocean freights and incidental expenses, we arrive at an aggregate economy of 8s.

As a result of these improvements land and timber values have markedly risen, and great impetus has been given to traffic on the rivers, which carry a large part of the cotton, lumber, coal, stone, hay and miscellaneous freights of the state.

The scarcity of animals, as well as the dearness of fodder, is one of the causes of the dearness of transport, and freights have risen on the most frequented roads from 3d.

Their provisions by restricting competition naturally tended to raise freights, and by restricting employment made it difficult for shipowners to man their vessels.

Freights from Galatz and Braila to North Sea ports have fallen from 50s.

There is a considerable traffic on the river within the borders of Arkansas in miscellaneous freights, and a slight passenger movement.

But freights had come down by 1900 to half the rates predicated by Caird; indeed, during a portion of the interval they ruled very close to zero, as far as steamer freights from America were concerned.

Motherof-pearl was exported before the World War to the value of £20,000; after the war high freights and absence of demand from Hamburg, the principal market, killed the trade for the time being.

Among the "harbours of incense" exploited by various Pharaohs during some twentyfive centuries it is impossible to believe that the island could be missed by the Egyptian galleys on their way to the "Land of Punt," identified by several writers with Somaliland; nor that, though the roadsteads of the African coast were perhaps oftener frequented, and for other freights besides myrrh and frankincense, the shores of Sokotra were neglected by such ardent explorers as those, for instance, of Queen Hatshepsut of the r8th dynasty.

A state railway commission controls transportation rates, which are also somewhat checked by the competition of river freights.

The largest item in the freights is iron ore on vessels bound down.

Moreover, the high freights on goods by the Beira route enabled Port Elizabeth to compete successfully for the trade of Rhodesia.