air-freight

verb

To ship cargo by the use of aircraft.

“Because of their urgency the agent will air-freight the parts.”

Meanings

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

present singular third person air-freights · participle present air-freighting · participle past air-freighted · past air-freighted · alternative airfreight

  1. To ship cargo by the use of aircraft.

    Because of their urgency the agent will air-freight the parts.

    1 more example

    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

Synonyms & antonyms

verbtransport (cargo) by air

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Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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