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airfreight en · NOUN

Etymology

From air + freight.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The transportation of freight by air.
  2. (uncountable) The amount charged for such transport.

Forms

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Translations (4)

ru авиафрахт (air transportation charge) · de Luftfracht (air transportation charge) · ru авиафрахт (transportation of freight) · de Luftfracht (transportation of freight)

airfreight en · VERB

Etymology

From air + freight.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To transport by air.
    • And I've told you a hundred times, Mac, draft beer is too expensive to airfreight in. 1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 65:
    • Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner. 2008 January 15, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade”, in New York Times:

Forms

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airfreighted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
airfreighted Tense=Past lexicographic
airfreighting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
air-freight alternative lexicographic
airfreights Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic