How to pronounce freight

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What freight means

noun

Goods carried by truck, train, ship or plane

In a sentence: A long train rumbled past, pulling cars full of freight.

Where it comes from: It goes back to an old word, vracht, that meant a ship's cargo or the money paid to carry it. It is a close cousin of the word fraught.

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