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car·go
/
ˈkɑr
goʊ
/
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[
kahr
-goh
]
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noun,
plural
car·goes,
car·gos.
1.
the lading or freight of a ship, airplane, etc.
2.
load
.
3.
cargos,
pants or shorts having several cargo pockets to hold bulky gear and small items.
adjective
4.
of or denoting a style of pants or shorts with cargo pockets.
Origin:
1640–50;
<
Spanish:
a load, noun derivative of
cargar
to load <
Late Latin
carricāre;
see
charge
Synonyms
1.
See
freight
.
2.
burden.
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World English Dictionary
cargo
(ˈkɑːɡəʊ)
—
n
,
pl
-goes
,
-gos
1.
a. goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle; freight
b. (
as modifier
):
a cargo vessel
2.
any load:
the train pulled in with its cargo of new arrivals
[C17: from Spanish: from
cargar
to load, from Late Latin
carricāre
to load a vehicle, from
carrus
car
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
cargo
1657, from Sp. cargo "burden," from cargar "to load, impose taxes," from L.L. carricare "to load on a cart" (see
charge
). South Pacific cargo cult is from 1949.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Freeing a beached vessel usually involved the laborious unloading of
cargo
until the boat rode high enough to clear the snag.
The city also accepted its share of incoming human
cargo
.
Those bath toys and sneakers have come from container ships that lost their
cargo
.
They are planned for use by piloted spacecraft and for transport of heavy
cargo
.
There's more than a little touch of
cargo
cult and ghost dance dreaming here.
Navies are also starting to deploy seamen on merchant ships, something hitherto rare unless the
cargo
was military.
But for now they wait, shuffling foot-to-foot under the
cargo
hold's glaring lights.
Invasive mussels and other critters are taken up by
cargo
shipping as part of the ballast water.
But exactly what happened to this boat and its human
cargo
was never to be known.
It is done before individual pieces of
cargo
are consolidated for shipment.
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