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单词 air freight
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air freightn.

Brit. /ˈɛː freɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛr ˌfreɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: air n.1, freight n.
Etymology: < air n.1 + freight n. Compare German Luftfracht (1927 or earlier). Compare air freighter n.
Freight transported by air.
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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > passengers and cargo carried by aircraft > freight carried by air
air freight1919
1919 Times 16 July 12/4 A Zeppelin freight and passenger service between New York and Hamburg will be started on October 18... The tentative price of $91 per ton was set as the rate for trans-ocean air freight.
1929 Aerial A.B.C. May–July 41 Luggage can also be forwarded as air freight.
1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy xv. 331 He was reduced to stomping the air-freight agencies, asking about a firm called Indocharter.
1996 Which? Guide to starting your own Business (new ed.) xv. 215 The British International Freight Association will supply the names of registered freight forwarders, both for shipping and air freight.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

air freightv.

Brit. /ˈɛː freɪt/, U.S. /ˈɛr ˌfreɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: air freight n.
Etymology: < air freight n. Compare earlier air freighter n., air freighting n. and slightly later air-freighted adj. 2.
transitive. To convey (goods or cargo) by air. Also occasionally intransitive.
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1943 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 9 Nov. 3/1 A cargo landing in San Francisco on Saturday, for example, can be air freighted to Boston and be in each New England city Monday.
1959 W. D. Pereira North Flight ix. 143 Make sure that box is air-freighted to-night.
1981 Southern Hort. (N.Z.) Spring 40/2 He said Californian growers are successfully airfreighting cherimoya to Japan.
2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Sept. c7/1 If something goes wrong, you have to air-freight rather than ship to meet the schedule.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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