v
To hire (a ship etc.) for the transportation of freight.
adj
(literary, chiefly figuratively) Filled or charged (with something).
n
(historical) A list of necessary stores shipped from the bonded warehouse, or for drawback on board vessels proceeding on oversea voyages.
n
Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.
n
(UK) As much as the boot of a car can hold; a trunkload.
adj
Of cargo, heterogeneous in size, shape, and handling requirements; neither bulk nor containerized.
n
(informal) A large amount.
n
(countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
n
Any cargo, either liquid or dry, that is shipped in volume without being packed into containers.
n
(nautical) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
n
The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
n
(obsolete) A cargo; a load of goods.
n
(dated, nautical) cargo, freight
n
Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
n
(code word, euphemistic) Casualties for transportation in the Soviet and modern Russian military. In official use, cargo 200 refers to bodies contained in zinc-lined coffins, but in a military context it may be used for dead bodies as they are transported from the battlefield.
n
Obsolete spelling of cargo [Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.]
n
The beliefs associated with cargo cults (unorthodox religious movements among the people of Melanesia based upon Western manufactured goods).
n
(art, manufacturing) A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
adj
Taken onto an airplane (or a ferry, etc.) with a passenger, rather than checked.
n
The transport of goods by cart; carting
n
(uncountable, Incoterm) Initialism of cost and freight. [(Incoterm) A scheme whereby the seller pays for transportation to the port of loading, cost and freight, and the buyer pays for the insurance and the rest of the transportation]
n
Alternative form of churchload [A quantity that fills a church; a churchful.]
n
An amount of goods shipped in a container.
n
(Incoterm) A scheme whereby the seller pays for transportation to the port of loading, cost and freight, and the buyer pays for the insurance and the rest of the transportation
n
A load stored in a crate; a crateful.
n
A sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity.
n
(nautical) The largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty.
n
Alternative spelling of dead freight [A sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel but fails to make out a full cargo. The payment is made for the unoccupied capacity.]
n
(shipping) A vehicle that is traveling on a leg of its route in which it does not carry any cargo.
n
An amount of cargo carried on the deck of a ship.
n
(shipping) the detention of a ship or other freight vehicle, during delayed loading or unloading
n
(US, transport) A site where equipment and vehicles transporting goods can be temporarily stored or parked, before resuming the delivery later on.
n
(chiefly transport) Scrap material, often wood, used to fill spaces to prevent the shifting of more valuable items during transport, or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground, in order to protect from chafing and wet.
n
(shipping) The amount of time a container is sitting onshore before being loaded onto trucks.
n
Deadweight ton; deadweight tonnage.
n
(logistics, initialism) freight all kinds; a basic freight rate for a shipping container regardless of the type of goods in the container.
v
(transitive) To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.
n
(historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
adj
Obsolete form of fraught. [(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.]
n
(obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
n
(obsolete) freight; cargo
n
(Incoterm) Meaning the seller incurs all costs of transportation up to a named carrier, after which the responsibility is with the buyer.
n
(countable) A burden, a load.
n
The transportation of goods.
n
One for whom freight is transported.
n
(shipping) Goods that are stowed in a ship in individually counted units and recorded on different bills of lading, and distinct from bulk cargo or cargo in containers; now largely superseded by containerisation of goods.
n
(UK, transport) Freight, as opposed to passengers.
adj
(freight, of a shipping container, attributive) Being 1 foot taller than the usual height.
n
(British spelling) the weight of a vehicle including fuel, but without passengers and luggage etc.
n
(dated) The loading or unloading of a ship's cargo.
n
One who loads cargo onto a vessel.
n
(uncountable) Shipment, cargo, freight.
n
A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
n
(obsolete) The lading of a ship; ballast.
adj
Relatively light freight, typically in as few handling units as possible.
n
(UK) As much as a lorry can hold; a truckload.
n
(nautical) Alternative form of parcelling [(nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used also in mousing on the stays, etc.]
n
That part of a cargo that produces revenue.
n
Carrying capacity; tonnage.
n
(uncountable, obsolete, rare) Goods or other things which are carried; burdens.
n
(archaic) A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
n
(naval slang) The transfer of fuel, munitions, or stores from one vessel to another while under way.
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(idiomatic) The weight of the payload on a vessel.
n
(nautical) The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.
n
a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship)
n
(nautical, historical) A permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
n
The weight of a commodity shipment after deduction of the weight of the container, before allowance of tret.
n
(obsolete, nautical) A laving or lading from one vessel to another.
adj
subjected to transportation
n
(informal) A very large amount.
n
(military) In naval control of shipping, a cargo which is not immediately required by the consignee country, but will be needed later.
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