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freight trainnoun chiefly North American1A train for carrying goods rather than people: a collision between a passenger train and a freight train...- There's scant peace to be had; everywhere is noise - freight trains, wind turbines, etc.
- Underneath is the tunnel for a new freight train line, part of a larger programme to improve the city's transport.
- There were two small freight train engines standing next to each other in the yard.
1.1Used in reference to a phenomenon regarded as powerful and unstoppable: people do not see the freight train of fiscal chaos coming cybercrime is a runaway freight train...- Teenagers are tested and tormented by the oncoming freight train called adult life.
- Underfunded pension plans are a slow-moving freight train that has been bearing down on corporate America for years.
- This movie franchise is a freight train that can't be stopped.
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