See Also: Fama, Eugene F(money)
Fama, Eugene F.(finance)
La Fama Bakery(tourism)
Tight money or dear money(finance)
freight(1)(dictionary)
freight(2)(dictionary)
freight car(dictionary)
Air Freight NZ(tourism)
freight(dictionary)
Freight(money)

Fama, Eugene F (money) and freight(2) (iou)


Fama, Eugene F (money)


Definition: [crh] Finance professor at the University of Chicago. Developer of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.







freight(2) (iou)



freight noun. LME.
[Middle Low German, Middle Dutch vrecht, var. of vracht: see FRAUGHT noun.]
Hire of a ship or aircraft for transporting goods; the service of transporting goods in containers or by water, air, or (chiefly US) land, esp. as distinguished from express by being slower and cheaper; the charge for this. LME.
G. Maxwell The box would have to Travel freight and not in the passenger portion of the aircraft. S. Bellow It'll cost two hundred bucks in freight.
The cargo of a ship; a ship load; goods carried by freight (see sense 1). LME.
pull one's freight: see PULL verb.
E. Linklater One boat had already arrived and discharged its freight.
b. A load, a burden. E17.
More fully freight train. A goods train; (chiefly US) a container train. M19.
M. B. Houston There were four trains a day..not counting the freights.
Comb.: Freightliner (proprietary name for) a container train; freight ton: see TON noun1 2; freight train: see sense 3 above.