FREIGHTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freightage mean? 

• FREIGHTAGE (noun)
  The noun FREIGHTAGE has 2 senses:

1. the charge for transporting something by common carrier

2. transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

  Familiarity information: FREIGHTAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREIGHTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The charge for transporting something by common carrier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

freight; freight rate; freightage

Context example:

the freight rate is usually cheaper

Hypernyms ("freightage" is a kind of...):

charge per unit; rate (amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis)

Derivation:

freight (load with goods for transportation)

freight (transport commercially as cargo)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

freight; freightage

Hypernyms ("freightage" is a kind of...):

shipping; transport; transportation (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)

Derivation:

freight (load with goods for transportation)

freight (transport commercially as cargo)

 Context examples 

And while Martin told him, he was busy studying Brissenden, ranging from a long, lean, aristocratic face and drooping shoulders to the overcoat on a neighboring chair, its pockets sagged and bulged by the freightage of many books.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)