cargo
Syllables: car·goUK/ˈkɑːɡəʊ//ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/
cargo noun: freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
Noun
cargo (countable and uncountable, plural cargos or cargoes)
- Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
- The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.
- "[…]her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,[…]"1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
- Western material goods.
- The principal change was that two of the 'satans', Kilibob and Manup, were now identified by different groups as God and Jesus Christ, as cargo deities. This expressed the return to hostility towards Europeans and a reassessment of native rights to the cargo.1964, Peter Lawrence, Road Belong Cargo
- In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult.1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult
Verb
cargo (third-person singular simple present cargos, present participle cargoing, simple past and past participle cargoed)
Proper noun capitalized: Cargo
Cargo (countable and uncountable, plural Cargos)
cargo meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
cargo in Hindi
- freight carried by a ship
- पोतभार potbhār, नौभार naubhār, माल māl, बोझ bojh, खेप khep
cargo in Tamil
- சரக்கு, கப்பல் சரக்கு, கப்பற்பாரம்
cargo in Urdu
- freight carried by a ship
- کارْگو kārgo, کھیپ khep, مال māl
cargo in Bengali
- freight carried by a ship
- মালপত্র malpotro, কার্গো kargō, মাল mal
More languagesFewer languages
- cargo in Malayalam
- വിമാനം തുടങ്ങിയവയിൽ കൊണ്ടു പോകുന്നത്
- cargo in Kannada
- ಹೇರು, ಹೇರಿಗೆ
- cargo in Punjabi
- ਕਾਰਗੋ, ਕਾਰਗੋਇੰਗ, ਮਾਲ ਢੋਣਾ
- cargo in Odia
- କାର୍ଗୋ
- cargo in Nepali
- कार्गो, कार्गाइङ
- cargo in Pashto
- بار bār, کارګو kārgo
- cargo in Tagalog
- kargamento, kargo
- cargo in Arabic
- حُمُولَة ḥumūla, شِحْنَة šiḥna, حِمْل ḥiml
- cargo in Malay
- kargo
- cargo in Indonesian
- kargo
- cargo in Thai
- สินค้า sǐn-káa
- cargo in Vietnamese
- hàng hóa, hàng hoá
- cargo in Myanmar
- ကုန်စည် kuncany, ကုန်ပစ္စည်း kunpaccany:, ကုန် kun
Examples of cargo in a sentence
- "[…]but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence:
- How will heaven be filled if the earth ceases to send its cargoes?2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Five”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 34:
- Why is it that Europeans, despite their likely genetic disadvantage and (in modern times) their undoubted developmental disadvantage, ended up with much more of the cargo?·1998, Jared M. Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, page 22:
- He was the only one to tell me that he thought it was possible that cargo was made by the ancestors.2002, Dorothy K. Billings, Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific, page 60:
Forms of cargo
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cargos |
| plural | cargoes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cargos |
| present participle | cargoing |
| past participle | cargoed |
| past | cargoed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Cargos |
Origin of cargo
Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm.
Words formed from cargo
- air cargo
- all-cargo
- bulk cargo
- cargo-200
- cargo aircraft
- cargo bicycle
- cargo bike
- cargo bin
- cargo container
- cargo cult
- cargo culting
- cargo cult science
- Cargo Fleet
- cargo hold
- cargoism
- cargo jack
- cargoless
- cargo liner
- cargo net
- cargo pallet
- cargo pants
- cargoplane
- cargo plane
- cargo ship
- cargo shorts
- cargo trousers
- cargo vessel
- general cargo
- hot cargo
- wanted cargo
Phrases with cargo
- cargo bins
- cargo nets
- cargo bikes
- cargo cults
- cargo holds
- cargo jacks
- cargo ships
- cargo liners
- cargo planes
- cargo pallets
- cargo vessels
- cargo bicycles
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with cargo
Questions about cargo
- What does cargo mean?
- Cargo means freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
- What is cargo in Hindi?
- Cargo in Hindi is पोतभार (potbhār), नौभार (naubhār), माल (māl). See Cargo meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use cargo in a sentence?
- "[…]but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."
- What part of speech is cargo?
- Cargo can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cargo?
- Cargo is pronounced /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cargo?
- The plural of cargo is cargos.
Words near cargo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cargo (page history and authors); Cargo (page history and authors); cargo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cargo (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cargo (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cargo (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cargo (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cargo (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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