Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The person in the employ of a transportation company who has charge of the freight-carrying department of its business, either at the head office (the general freight-agent), or at some particular port or station.
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Newspapers are enough to test its powers as a freight-agent.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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