What is "cargo" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does cargo mean in English? Meaning of cargo definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "cargo" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "cargo": goods carried by a large vehicle

Noun

  • Meaning: goods carried by a large vehicle
  • Synonyms: cargo consignment freight lading load loading payload shipment
  • Hypernyms: merchandise product ware
  • Adjective: Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc. 1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson "…her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…" 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence, "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson "…her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence, "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."(Papua New Guinea) Western material goods. 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, page xi "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo" cult)."1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, page xi "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo" cult)."
  • Synonyms:

    load, goods, freight, consignment, shipment, payload, merchandise, lading, haul, contents, burden, ware, tonnage, shipload,

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