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cargoe

cargoe is the obsolete spelling of cargo.

Meaning of cargo

Noun

cargo (countable and uncountable, plural cargos or cargoes)

  1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
    • The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.
  2. (Papua-New-Guinea) 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

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Forms of cargoe

pluralcargoes

Questions about cargoe

What is cargoe the obsolete spelling of?
Cargoe is the obsolete spelling of cargo.

Words near cargoe in the dictionary

  1. cargo shorts
  2. cargo trousers
  3. cargo vessel
  4. cargo vessels
  5. cargo-200
  6. cargoe
  7. cargoed
  8. cargoes
  9. cargoid
  10. cargoids
  11. cargoing

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