cargo

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 carruscar]

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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.

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.

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"Nitrates and phosphates for ammunition. The seeds of war. They're loading a full cargo of death. And when that ship takes it home, the world will die a little more."

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