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cargo

car·go [ ˈkär-(ˌ)gō]

cargo

noun

[ˈkär-(ˌ)gō]

plural cargoes or cargos

Definition of cargo

: the goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, airplane, or vehicle : freight
//Dock workers were unloading the ship's cargo.

Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty

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Recent Examples on the Web

//That is the equivalent of roughly one cargo ship’s worth of plastic created every 30 minutes.
— Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, "The incomprehensible scale of global plastic production, broken down," 8 Nov. 2019
//The area of Fisher Island, the exclusive private barrier island located next to downtown Miami, became the temporary home of a Panamanian cargo ship that ran aground.
— Doug Phillips, sun-sentinel.com, "Uninvited visitor near exclusive Miami island: 200-foot cargo ship that ran ‘hard aground’," 8 Nov. 2019
//With the Cygnus spacecraft safely berthed, the station crew expects to welcome two more cargo ships in December, along with a Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule making an unpiloted test flight.
— William Harwood, CBS News, "Cargo ship reaches space station with cookie-baking oven and other gear," 4 Nov. 2019
//The value Colorado offers to Europe, for the most panert, does not travel in bulk containers on cargo ships.
— Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, "When it comes to trade for Colorado, all is not quiet on the European front," 27 Oct. 2019
//Taleblu pointed to a Chinese and Russian cruise missile that can be disguised in a cargo ship’s container.
— Eli Lake, Twin Cities, "Eli Lake: Iranian mayhem is about to get worse," 25 Oct. 2019
//Both, however, require lots of infrastructure, supplies and maintenance—all of which would take up space on cargo ships, as well as time and money.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Space Farmers Could Grow Crops in Lunar and Martian Soil, Study Suggests," 22 Oct. 2019
//In the end, the cargo ship’s captain let the Alan Kurdi take charge.
— Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, "Inside the effort to rescue Europe’s unwelcome immigrants," 17 Oct. 2019
//In early September, about 30 kayakers from the Pacific Northwest activist group Mosquito Fleet paddled from Kelley Point Park in Portland to the Port of Vancouver to protest a cargo ship that was carrying piping for the expansion project.
— The Columbian, oregonlive, "Pipeline protestors block trains at Port of Vancouver," 17 Oct. 2019

First Known Use of cargo

1657, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for cargo

Spanish, load, charge, from cargar to load, from Late Latin carricare — more at charge entry 1

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More Synonyms and Antonyms ofcargo

Synonyms of cargo

a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported

we put all of our cargo on the pack animals and began our journey through the canyon

Synonyms for cargo

Words Related to cargo

consignment

manifest

More Definitions forcargo

cargo

noun

English Language Learners Definition of cargo

: something that is carried from one place to another by boat, airplane, etc.

cargo

noun

car·go | \ ˈkär-gō \

plural cargoes or cargos

Kids Definition of cargo

: the goods carried by a ship, airplane, or vehicle