airfreight

See also: air-freight and air freight

English

Alternative forms

• air freight
• air-freight (verb)

Etymology

air +‎ freight

Noun

airfreight (uncountable)

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

Translations

transportation of freight

air transportation charge

Verb

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.