cargo

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 3 Italian 3.1 Noun 4 Spanish 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Related terms 4.1.2 Derived terms 4.2 Verb

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[edit] Etymology

From Spanish cargar ("to load"), from Late Latin carricare.

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)ɡəʊ

[edit] Noun

cargo (countable and uncountable; plural cargos or cargoes)

1. 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."

2. (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)."

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• cargo cult

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[edit] French

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From English cargo.

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• IPA: /kaʁ.ɡɔ/, SAMPA: /kaR.gO/

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cargo (Plural: cargos)

1. ship designed to carry a cargo.

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cargo m. (plural carghi)

1. cargo boat
2. freighter (boat or plane)

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[edit] Spanish

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cargo m. (plural cargos)

1. charge, burden
2. position (work)

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• cargar
• cargante
• carga

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• a cargo

[edit] Verb

cargo (infinitive: cargar)

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cargar.