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Surcharge vs Freight - What's the difference?

surcharge | freight |

As verbs the difference between surcharge and freight

is that surcharge is while freight is to transport (goods).

As an adjective surcharge

is surcharged.

As a noun freight is

payment for transportation.

surcharge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
    • Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge .
  • An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
  • (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
  • (legal) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
    • (Burrill)
  • (legal) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
  • (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.
  • (legal, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

    • See also

    * surtax * surcharged

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To apply a surcharge.
  • To overload; to overburden.
    • to surcharge''' an animal or a ship; to '''surcharge a cannon
  • * Dryden
    • Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, / Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.
  • (legal) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
    • (Blackstone)
  • To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
    • (Daniel)

    Antonyms

    * discount

    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

    Anagrams

    * *

    See also

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