freighter
pronunciation
How to pronounce freighter in British English:
UK [ˈfreɪtə(r)]
How to pronounce freighter in American English:
US [ˈfretɚ]
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- Noun:
- a cargo ship
Word Origin
- freighter (n.)
- 1620s, "one who loads (a ship)," agent noun from freight (v.). Meaning "a cargo vessel" is from 1839, American English.
Example
- 1. In chittagong , bangladesh , workers take apart a freighter so the parts can be sold for scrap .
- 2. The freighter carries a few passengers in addition to its cargo .
- 3. The bainbridge is the ship from which us navy snipers killed three pirates who were holding richard phillips , the captain of the freighter maersk alabama , on board a drifting lifeboat .
- 4. Pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at an american ship carrying humanitarian aid off the coast of somalia in the fifth attack on a commercial vessel since the us navy 's rescue of a captured freighter captain .
- 5. A stage two freighter could carry itself , with an empty mass of 500 tons , to uranus in 70 days for just 114 tons of fuel , and then bring back a load of 614 tons using about 254 tons of fuel .