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cargoes

cargoes is the plural of cargo.

cargoes is the plural of cargoe.

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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Phrases with cargoes

Questions about cargoes

What is cargoes the plural of?
Cargoes is the plural of cargo.

Words near cargoes in the dictionary

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

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