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English
Etymology
From freight + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
freighter (plural freighters)
- One who loads a ship.
- Synonym: lader
- Near-synonyms: docker, dockworker, stevedore, longshoreman; loader
- One who charters and loads a ship.
- Near-synonym: charterer
- One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.
- Coordinate term: carrier
- One for whom freight is transported.
- Hypernym: customer
- (nautical) A ship used mainly to carry freight.
- Synonym: cargo ship
- (aviation, by extension) An aircraft used mainly to carry freight; a cargo aircraft or cargo plane.
- Synonym: airfreighter
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