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Freight vs Primage - What's the difference?

freight | primage |

As nouns the difference between freight and primage

is that freight is payment for transportation while primage is a payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.

As a verb freight

is to transport (goods).

freight

English

Noun

(-)
  • Payment for transportation.
    • The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal.
  • Goods or items in transport.
    • The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway.
  • Transport of goods.
    • They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense.
  • (label) Cultural or emotional associations.
    • A wedding ring is small, but it has massive emotional freight .

    Synonyms

    * cargo * luggage

    Derived terms

    * freight car * freighter * freight yard * pay the freight

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transport (goods).
  • To load with freight. Also figurative .
  • *

    • Derived terms

    * fraught

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    See also

    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    primage

    English

    Etymology 1

    From primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
  • * 1818 , , The Political State of the British Empire , Volume 3, page 197,
    • By the bill of lading the ma?ter undertakes to deliver the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accu?tomed.
  • (archaic, UK) An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne) .
  • (Australia, New Zealand) An additional import duty levied by customs.
  • * 1932 , E. T. McPhee (Commonwealth Statistician), Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: No. 25 - 1932 ,
    • The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (engineering, rare) Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
  • * 1883 , Emory Edwards, Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management , page 75,
    • Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage ; all others exhibit a slight superheat.

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