freight business

collocation in English

meaningsoffreightandbusiness

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freight
noun[U]
uk
/freɪt/us
/freɪt/
goods, but not passengers, that are carried from one place to another, by ship, aircraft, train, or truck, or the system of transporting ...
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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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(Definition offreightandbusinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffreight business

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In 1978 the railfreightbusinessbore approximately 20per cent.
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Thefreightbusinesshad hoped to build up the service to a point where investment in new jumbo ferries would be possible.
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The board has had considerable success recently in maintaining itsfreightbusinessafter the substantial drop of a year or two ago.
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Much mention has been made of thefreightbusiness.
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It is thefreightbusinessthat is losing heavily when it should be a profit earner.
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I hope that this can go ahead this year, but it is dependent on progress to recovery in thefreightbusiness.
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That will be dependent upon the progress towards recovery of thefreightbusiness.
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It is, of course, a facility that is important to the development offreightbusiness.
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I think that, quite apart from passengers, we need to settle down to thefreightbusiness.
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Since then, that company has enthusiastically and determinedly taken steps to boostfreightbusiness in particular and to make inroads into passenger transport.
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The expectation was that the railfreightbusinesson this basis would be able to break even.
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Not only is that inadequate but there are considerable doubts about whether costs are accurately shared between the passenger andfreightbusiness.
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The expectation was that the railfreightbusinesson this new basis would be able to break even.
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Passengers andfreightbusinesswill suffer unless the railways give a reliable service.
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There is no breakdown in thefreightbusinessbetween general freight and the cost of the parcels business.
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It is that railfreightbusinessbears track and signalling costs only on lines which it uses exclusively.
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The railways have lost a hugefreightbusiness.
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There is a potential conflict between selling thefreightbusinessand thereafter liberalising access to the networks.
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In all, therefore, the railfreightbusinessnow has new wagon equipment.
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There is competition also from lorries forfreightbusiness.
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