A classification that represents ease or difficulty of loading and carrying the freight is assigned to the items. Liability: Liability is probability of freight theft or damage, or damage to adjacent freight.
Definition of banana republic. : a small dependent country usually of the tropics; especially : one run despotically.
republic definition. A form of government in which power is explicitly vested in the people, who in turn exercise their power through elected representatives. Today, the terms republic and democracy are virtually interchangeable, but historically the two differed. Democracy implied direct rule by the people, all of whom were equal, whereas republic implied a system of government in which the will of the people was mediated by representatives, who might be wiser and better educated than the average person.