Lexic.us

Definition of Freight rate

1. Noun. The charge for transporting something by common carrier. "The freight rate is usually cheaper"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freight Rate

Literary usage of Freight rate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biennial Report by Vermont Public Service Commission (1860)
"... Rate per ton per mile charged on 1st class through freight, Rate per ton per mile charged on 2d class through freight, Rate per ton per mile charged on ..."

2. Industrial Arts Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"Ry & Eng R 53:406 My 31 '13 Coke and iron ore freight rate decisions. Iron Age 1)1:1478-80 Je 19 '13 Coke and iron ore rates. Iron Tr R 52:1415-6 Je l» '13 ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1907)
"No presumption of law that a freight rate upon a particular commodity is reasonably low exists because such rate has been duly published and filed by the ..."

4. Principles of Railroad Transportation by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre (1920)
"The problem of fixing passenger fares as compared with the freight rate problem, 364. The general tariff policy of American and foreign railroads, 365. ..."

5. Railroads, Rates and Regulation by William Zebina Ripley (1912)
"The Maximum (Cincinnati) freight rate case revived, 588. ... The freight rate advances of 1910, 594. —Their causes examined, 595. — Weakness of the railroad ..."

6. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1914)
"freight rate Increase: a crisis in railroad finance. R. of Rs. 49: 562-5. My. '14. ... Charles Francis Adams and the freight-rate Increase. ..."

7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"... western district of Missouri, sitting at Kansas City, Misouri, enjoining the operation and enforcement of the said maximum freight rate laws of 1905. ..."

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