commercial freight

collocation in English

meaningsofcommercialandfreight

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commercial
adjective
uk
/kəˈmɜː.ʃəl/us
/kəˈmɝː.ʃəl/
related to making money by buying and ...
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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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(Definition ofcommercialandfreightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommercial freight

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Major drug traffickers are also becoming more adept at using the cover ofcommercialfreightto ply their evil trade.
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Equally, we must look at that stretch—there are few such stretches—where genuinecommercialfreightcan be carried at a profit.
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I say, therefore, that from the strategic point of view it is vital that ourcommercialfreightair fleet must be developed.
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Surely we should do all we can to encourage the transport ofcommercialfreightby water.
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There has been a sharp decline in the level ofcommercialfreight-carrying over the last twenty years.
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But it cannot make a profit because it has nocommercialfreightthat it can carry.
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Traffic going through the town, particularly thecommercialfreighttraffic, does not stop in the town to shop they want to get through as quickly as they can.
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Since improvements in the road and rail structure, less and lesscommercialfreightwater traffic is using the water.
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The line is periodically used forcommercialfreightoperations and staff instruction for mainline railway companies.
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In addition, a number of heritage railwaylines are regularly used bycommercialfreightoperators.
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Allentown is a regional center forcommercialfreightrail traffic.
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It is used both forcommercialfreightand by holiday-makers.
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These are the tire sizes used on vehicles such ascommercialfreighttrucks, dump trucks, and passenger buses.
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Wide-body aircraft are also used for the transport ofcommercialfreightand cargo and other special uses, described further below.
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For such a short line and a small station, the location was well patronised bycommercialfreightcustomers.
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The bridge was built primarily to divertcommercialfreighttraffic away from the busy downtown bridges, but about a third of the passenger vehicles also cross at this point.
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Commercialfreightwas not allowed to use the canal, and a complicated tax system on water transport kept the trekschuit system a stable means of passenger transport for centuries.
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These highways support the fifth greatest traffic volume by total vehicle miles, the third-greatest value ofcommercialfreight, and contain the second-largest inventory of bridges in the nation as well.
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