cargo
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From Spanish cargar ("to load"), from Late Latin carricare.
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)ɡəʊ
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cargo (countable and uncountable; plural cargos or cargoes)
- 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
- (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
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freight carried by a ship
[edit] French
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From English cargo.
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cargo (Plural: cargos)
- ship designed to carry a cargo.
[edit] Italian
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cargo m. (plural carghi)
- cargo boat
- freighter (boat or plane)
[edit] Spanish
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cargo m. (plural cargos)
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cargo (infinitive: cargar)
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