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動詞

air-freight (三人称単数 現在形 air-freights, 現在分詞 air-freighting, 過去形および過去分詞形 air-freighted)

1. To ship cargo by the use of aircraft.
   • 1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 41:

     It was the river up which the chinook and sockeye and silver and humpy and dog salmon migrated to lay their eggs and dies or to be tangled in set nets and air-freighted to Anchorage, there to be cleaned and frozen and shipped to restaurants and supermarkets half a world away.

   Because of their urgency the agent will air-freight the parts.

語源

air +‎ freight

名詞

airfreight (uncountable)

1. The transportation of freight by air.
2. The amount charged for such transport.

動詞

airfreight (三人称単数 現在形 airfreights, 現在分詞 airfreighting, 過去形および過去分詞形 airfreighted)

1. (transitive) To transport by air.
   • 2008 January 15, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade”, in New York Times^[1]:

     Caught the day before far off the coast of West Africa, they have been airfreighted to London for dinner.