Freight

What “Freight” means

Noun

1. The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
2. Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.
3. Payment for transportation.
4. A burden, a load.
5. Cultural or emotional associations.

Verb

1. To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
2. To transport (goods).
3. To load or store (goods, etc.).
4. To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
5. Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.

Adj

1. Freighted; laden.

Where the word comes from

From Late Middle English freight, freght, freyght [and other forms], a variant of fraught, fraght (“transport of goods or people, usually by water; transportation fee; transportation facilities; cargo or passengers of a ship; (figuratively) burden; ballast of a ship; goods; a charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, and Middle Low German vrecht (“cargo, freight; transportation fee”), from Old Saxon frāht, frēht, from Proto-West Germanic *fra- (from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’)) + *aihti (from Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possessions, property”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)). The English word can be analysed as for- + aught, and is a doublet of fraught. Cognates * French fret (“cargo, freight; transportation fees; rental of a ship”) * Old English ǣht (“livestock; possession, property; power

The verb is derived from Late Middle English freighten, freghten, a variant of fraughten, fraghten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods; to provide fully (with goods, money, etc.); to stow away”), and then either: * from fraught, fraght (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); or * from Middle Dutch vrachten, vrechten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods, to fraught”), from vracht, vrecht (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs). The adjective is: * derived from Middle English freght, freight, freyght, the past participle of fraughten (verb) (see above); and/or * a contraction of freighted, the past participle of the verb.

Business name ideas with “Freight”

Industries where “Freight” fits

We suggest this word for 63 business types and industries, including:

• Courier Service
• Courier Startup
• Fishing Charter
• Food Delivery Startup
• Limo Service
• Logistics Company
• Moving Company
• Towing Company
• Trucking Company
• Air Traffic Control
• All Other Pipeline Transportation
• All Other Support Activities for Transportation
• All Other Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
• Bus and Other Motor Vehicle Transit Systems
• Charter Bus Industry
• Coastal and Great Lakes Freight Transportation
• Coastal and Great Lakes Passenger Transportation
• Commuter Rail Systems
• Couriers and Express Delivery Services
• Deep Sea Freight Transportation
• Deep Sea Passenger Transportation
• Farm Product Warehousing and Storage
• Freight Transportation Arrangement
• General Freight Trucking, Local
• General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Less Than Truckload
• General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload
• General Warehousing and Storage
• Inland Water Freight Transportation
• Inland Water Passenger Transportation
• Interurban and Rural Bus Transportation
• Limousine Service
• Local Messengers and Local Delivery
• Marine Cargo Handling
• Mixed Mode Transit Systems
• Motor Vehicle Towing
• Navigational Services to Shipping
• Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation
• Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation
• Other Airport Operations
• Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation