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air-freight

air-freight verb: to ship cargo by the use of aircraft.

Verb

air-freight (third-person singular simple present air-freights, present participle air-freighting, simple past and past participle air-freighted)

  1. To ship cargo by the use of aircraft.
    • Because of their urgency the agent will air-freight the parts.
    • It was the river up which the chinook and sockeye and silver and humpy and dog salmon migrated to lay their eggs and dies or to be tangled in set nets and air-freighted to Anchorage, there to be cleaned and frozen and shipped to restaurants and supermarkets half a world away.1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 41

Forms of air-freight

third-person singular presentair-freights
present participleair-freighting
past participleair-freighted
pastair-freighted
alternative formairfreight

Questions about air-freight

What does air-freight mean?
Air-freight means to ship cargo by the use of aircraft.
What part of speech is air-freight?
Air-freight is a verb.
What is the past tense of air-freight?
The past tense of air-freight is air-freighted.

Words near air-freight in the dictionary

  1. air-dry
  2. air-drying
  3. air-duct
  4. air-ducts
  5. air-flown
  6. air-freight
  7. air-freighted
  8. air-freighting
  9. air-freights
  10. air-fried
  11. air-fries

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