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to airfreight

to airfreight

4.8
Send goods by plane
  • verb
  • /ˈɛrˌfreɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : transportar por aire
  • She chose to airfreight the fragile documents to ensure they arrived safely and on time.

Examples

  • Deciding to take a gamble, he packed up and airfreighted much of his stock to New York City, bought a round-trip ticket (as required for a six-month business visitor's visa), and set out to make his fortune.

    Academic text (2002)

  • After receiving the order, the company decided to airfreight the products to meet the customer's urgent deadline.

  • To expedite delivery, we will airfreight the equipment directly to the international conference.

Synonyms

to fly
vsto airfreight
∞ 2.3

Travel in an airplane or control a plane

focuses only on moving goods by aircraft rather than piloting or carrying passengers
to airmail
vsto airfreight
1 2.8

To send letters or packages by plane so they arrive faster

covers all kinds of cargo by aircraft rather than only postal items
to air-freight
vsto airfreight
  • Specialized
1 4.2

To send goods by plane for fast delivery

is the same meaning but written without a hyphen

How Fast

to airfreight
  • Specialized
4.8
to rail
1 2.4
to truck
  • US
28 2.6
to ship
347 1.1

Surface Forms

airfreight infinitive
airfreighted past
airfreighted past participle
airfreighting present participle
airfreights third person singular

Morphology

airfreight = air freight (transparent) = air + freight

The verb is transparently based on the compound noun 'air freight', whose meaning is directly recoverable from 'air' + 'freight'.

Etymology

Airfreight joins air ('the sky' or 'by airplane') and freight ('goods to carry'). So, to airfreight something is to send it by airplane, just like a 'freight train' carries goods by rail.