freight
意味
- 貨物運送
- 運送料,運賃《米》運賃先払い(《英》carriage forward)
- [運送]貨物,積み荷
- (またfreight train)《米》貨物列車(《英》goods train)
- 〈船・貨車〉に(…の)貨物を積む《+名+with+名》
- (貨物として)…を運送する
例文
He hopped on a freight train bound for New York.
彼はニューヨーク行きの貨物列車に飛び乗った。
This aircraft company deals with freight only.
この航空会社は貨物輸送だけを取り扱っています。
That aircraft company deals in freight only.
その航空会社は貨物のみを扱っている。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Late Middle English freight, freght, freyght [and other forms], a variant of fraught, fraght (“transport of goods or people, usually by water; transportation fee; transportation facilities; cargo or passengers of a ship; (figuratively) burden; ballast of a ship; goods; a charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, and Middle Low German vrecht (“cargo, freight; transportation fee”), from Old Saxon frāht, frēht, from Proto-West Germanic *fra- (from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’)) + *aihti (from Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possessions, property”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)).