airfreight

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See also: air-freight and air freight

English

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Etymology

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From air +‎ freight.

Noun

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airfreight (uncountable)

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

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Verb

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airfreight (third-person singular simple present airfreights, present participle airfreighting, simple past and past participle airfreighted)

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