freighting
present participle offreight
freight
verb[T]
uk/freɪt/us/freɪt/tosendgoodsbyair,sea, ortrain:
Grapes from thisregionare freighted all over theworld.
Delivering and despatching
- air bridge
- air corridor
- air-dash
- box scheme
- consign
- courier
- dispatch
- drop off
- misaddress
- misdirect
- misdirection
- misroute
- sendsomethingoff
- sendsomethingon
- sendsomethingout
- ship
- shipment
- shoot
- truck
Examplesoffreighting
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
These include improved arrangements for travel,freightingof officers' personal effects and obtaining supplies through central agencies.
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We have heard a lot about passenger aircraft but little about airfreighting.
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How many are, in fact, air freighted and what are the rules about airfreightingmagazines and books, which presumably may save postal charges?
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If there is a shortage of aircrew to carry out the existing work, how could the corporation carry out additionalfreighting?
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I foresee great expansion in the aircraft industry in future not only in passenger carrying, but also in the new exciting rô1e of airfreighting.
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We are, after all, talking about the advantages of transcontinentalfreighting.
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I believe that we are on the threshold of airfreightingand that to-day we have not even touched the fringe of it.
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This is a debate about the systematicfreightinginto this country of about 16 billion cigarettes a year—one in five of those that are smoked.
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Airfreightingis, however, a subject which we shall keep in mind in the formulation of our policies.
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Then there is the question offreighting.
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In all three categories—front-line support, forward base support, andfreightingsupport—we are progressively adding new and improved ships for the benefit of the fleet and the seaborne concept.
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Who would have believed, 25 years ago, that the economics of flying would eventually have permitted the airfreightingof such a common cargo as potatoes?
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He engaged in the waterfreightingbusiness in 1823 and was also interested in agricultural pursuits.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By 1934, passenger traffic service had been discontinued, with local railfreightingfollowing it in 1956.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It includes carting, pulka, scootering, sled dog racing, skijoring,freighting, and weight pulling.
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- hang sth on sb
- hang-sth-on-sb
- hang sth up
- hang-sth-up
- hang the cost/expense
- hang-the-cost-expense
- hang together
- hang-together
- hang tough
- hang-tough
- Hangtown Fry
- hangtown-fry
- hang up
- hang-up
- hang your head
- hank
- hanker
- hanker-after-for
- hanker after/for something
- hanker after/for sth
- hanker-after-for-sth
- hankering
- hanky
- hanky-panky
- hanky-panky