Crossword clues for freightage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freightage \Freight"age\ (fr[=a]t"[asl]j; 48), n.
The charge for transportation; the expense of carriage.
The transportation of freight.
Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "money paid for transporting," a hybrid word, from freight (n.) + -age. From 1803 as "freight, cargo." The older word was fraughtage (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The transportation of goods. 2 The price of transporting goods.
WordNet
n. the charge for transporting something by common carrier; "we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually cheaper" [syn: freight, freight rate]
transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates [syn: freight]
Usage examples of "freightage".
One can imagine that, but he cannot well imagine what that forest of timbers cost, from the time they were felled in the pineries beyond Washoe Lake, hauled up and around Mount Davidson at atrocious rates of freightage, then squared, let down into the deep maw of the mine and built up there.
The high prices charged for trifles were eloquent of high freights and bewildering distances of freightage.