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airfreight

noun

Etymology

From air + freight.

  1. derived from *h₂eyḱ-✻ — “to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”
  2. derived from *aihtiz✻ — “possessions, property”
  3. derived from *fra-✻
  4. derived from *fra-✻
  5. derived from frāht
  6. derived from vrecht — “cargo, freight; transportation fee”
  7. derived from vracht
  8. inherited from freight
  9. compounded as airfreight — “air + freight”

Definitions

  1. The transportation of freight by air.

  2. The amount charged for such transport.

  3. To transport by air.

    • And I've told you a hundred times, Mac, draft beer is too expensive to airfreight in.
    • Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA