"freight operating company" meaning in English

See freight operating company in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: freight operating companies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} freight operating company (plural freight operating companies)
  1. (UK, rail transport) A company that runs freight trains on the national railway network in Great Britain under license from the government. Tags: UK Categories (topical): Rail transportation Related terms: train operating company
    Sense id: en-freight_operating_company-en-noun-k-W7SB9~ Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for freight operating company meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "freight operating companies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "freight operating company (plural freight operating companies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A company that runs freight trains on the national railway network in Great Britain under license from the government."
      ],
      "id": "en-freight_operating_company-en-noun-k-W7SB9~",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "freight train",
          "freight train"
        ],
        [
          "railway",
          "railway"
        ],
        [
          "Great Britain",
          "Great Britain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, rail transport) A company that runs freight trains on the national railway network in Great Britain under license from the government."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "train operating company"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "freight operating company"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "freight operating companies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "freight operating company (plural freight operating companies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "train operating company"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A company that runs freight trains on the national railway network in Great Britain under license from the government."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "freight train",
          "freight train"
        ],
        [
          "railway",
          "railway"
        ],
        [
          "Great Britain",
          "Great Britain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, rail transport) A company that runs freight trains on the national railway network in Great Britain under license from the government."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "freight operating company"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.