cargo

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See also: Cargo and cargó

English

Etymology

From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin carricare.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
  • Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo (countable and uncountable, plural cargos or cargoes)

  1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
    • 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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French

Etymology

From English cargo.

Pronunciation

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

  1. ship designed to carry a cargo

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkar.ɡo/
  • Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural carghi)

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

  1. post, occupation, profession
  2. office; responsibility

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cargo m (genitive singular cargo, plural cargothan)

  1. Alternative form of carago.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾɡo/ [ˈkaɾ.ɣ̞o]
  • Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

  1. charge, burden
  2. position, post
  3. (finance) debit
  4. (heraldry) charge

cargo m (plural cargos, feminine carga, feminine plural cargas)

  1. higher-up

Derived terms

Verb

cargo

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

Venetian

Adjective

cargo (feminine singular carga, masculine plural cargi, feminine plural carge)

  1. loaded, laden
  2. charged
  3. full
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