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the charge for transporting something by common carrier
the freight rate is usually cheaper
we pay the freight - transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
How To Use freightage In A Sentence
- Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books — books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport. Local Color
- This comparison is of the freightage from London to an American port, versus freightage from Cádiz.
- All that exists is the Elsinore, with her queer human freightage and her cargo of coal, cleaving a rotund of ocean of which the skyline is a dozen miles away. CHAPTER XIX
- While Kwaque obeyed, the mate sounded the well for the last time, reporting three feet and a half, and the lighter freightage of the starboard boat was tossed in by the sailors. CHAPTER XV
- Office of Maritime Development, so that we may have the right to claim our share in the purchase and sale freightage, which is the only by which we can maintain the Merchant Marine. TELEVISION APPEARANCE ON CHANNEL 2
- Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books -- books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport. Local Colour
- Regarding international transport, the amount of cargo freightage by motor vehicles grew 13.7% over 2004.
- Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books — books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport. Local Color
- He saw the captain take from the pocket of his paletot a square box or packet, it might be jewels or only papers, and hand them to his companion, who popped them into his left-hand surtout pocket, and kept his hand there as if the freightage were specially valuable. Wylder's Hand
- Railroad is in the development course of our country freightage , ever was in significant backbone position for a long time.