Usually means: Contract for transport of goods.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. affreightment: Merriam-Webster
  2. affreightment: Collins English Dictionary
  3. affreightment: Wordnik
  4. affreightment: Wiktionary
  5. Affreightment, affreightment: Dictionary.com
  6. Affreightment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Affreightment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. affreightment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Affreightment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. affreightment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. affreightment: FreeDictionary.org
  12. affreightment: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. affreightment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. affreightment: Merriam-Webster

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. affreightment: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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  1. affreightment: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (affreightment)

▸ noun:  (nautical) The act of hiring, or the contract for use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

Similar:
charterage, boatage, aff., affranchisement, lading, refurnishment, sailing, inducement, defrayment, transport, more...

Opposite:
disaffreightment, unfreightment, unchartering

Phrases:
contract of affreightment, more...

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Similar:
charterage, boatage, aff., affranchisement, lading, refurnishment, sailing, inducement, defrayment, transport, more...

Opposite:
disaffreightment, unfreightment, unchartering

Phrases:
contract of affreightment, more...



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