airfreight
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See also: air-freight and air freight
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- air freight
- air-freight (verb)
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]airfreight (uncountable)
- The transportation of freight by air.
- The amount charged for such transport.
Translations
[edit]transportation of freight
air transportation charge
Verb
[edit]airfreight (third-person singular simple present airfreights, present participle airfreighting, simple past and past participle airfreighted)
- (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.