freight insurance

  • 1freight insurance — insurance purchased to ensure the safe conveyance of cargo or goods shipped …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 2freight insurance — A form of marine or aviation insurance in which a consignor or a consignee covers loss of sums paid in freight for the transport of goods …

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  • 3freight insurance — noun : insurance for indemnifying the policyholder against loss of the freight money if the shipowner cannot complete his contract of carriage because of unavoidable peril …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 4insurance — noun /ɨn.ˈʃɹ̩.ɨns,ˈɪn.ʃə.ɹɨns/ a) A means of indemnity against a future occurrence of an uncertain event. The car was totalled, but fortunately I had insurance. b) The business of providing insurance. After five years in banking, I switched to… …

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  • 5freight and insurance paid — ˌfreight and inˌsurance ˈpaid noun [uncountable] another name for carriage and insurance paid * * * freight and insurance paid UK US adverb TRANSPORT, INSURANCE ► CARRIAGE AND INSURANCE PAID(Cf. ↑carriage and insurance paid) …

    Financial and business terms

  • 6insurance — /in shoor euhns, sherr /, n. 1. the act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one s person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a… …

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  • 7freight — A transportation term meaning either goods being transported, and/or charges incurred for such transport. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * ▪ I. freight freight 1 [freɪt] noun [uncountable] 1. TRANSPORT goods carried in large quantities by… …

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  • 8Freight forwarder — The storefront of one of many freight forwarders located around Guangzhou s garment districts. The list of destinations indicate that this business serves importers of Chinese clothes to countries such as Russia and Azerbaijan. A freight… …

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  • 9insurance — A contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, one party undertakes to compensate the other for loss on a specified subject by specified perils. The party agreeing to make the compensation is usually called the insurer or underwriter; the… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 10insurance — A contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, one party undertakes to compensate the other for loss on a specified subject by specified perils. The party agreeing to make the compensation is usually called the insurer or underwriter; the… …

    Black's law dictionary