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freight yards

freight yards is the plural of freight yard.

Meaning of freight yard

Noun

freight yard (plural freight yards)

  1. A rail yard for freight cars, typically designed for loading and unloading cargo and sorting locomotives.
    • We got into Milan early in the morning and they unloaded us in the freight yard.1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 85
    Synonyms:
    goods yard

Questions about freight yards

What is freight yards the plural of?
Freight yards is the plural of freight yard.

Words near freight yards in the dictionary

  1. freight truck
  2. freight trucks
  3. freight wagon
  4. freight wagons
  5. freight yard
  6. freight yards
  7. freight-only
  8. freightable
  9. freightage
  10. freightages
  11. freighted

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