freight car

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   a railway car that carries freight

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Questions about freight car

What does freight car mean?

freight car means "a railway car that carries freight".

Is freight car a common word?

freight car is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.