cargo

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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

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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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freight carried by a ship

[edit] French

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From English cargo.

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cargo m. (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)

[edit] Scottish Gaelic

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cargo m. (genitive cargo, plural cargothan)

  1. Alternative form of carago.

[edit] Spanish

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cargo m. (plural cargos)

  1. charge, burden
  2. position (work)

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cargo (infinitive cargar)

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

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cargo m. (f. carga, m plural cargi, f plural carge)

  1. loaded, laden
  2. charged
  3. full
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