Plural of cargo

Forms of cargo

Cargos and cargoes in a sentence

• 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
• As in most small rural Mexican communities, local residents fill municipal office, or cargos, on a nonpaid basis.1986, Michael Kearney, The Winds of Ixtepeji: World View and Society in a Zapotec Town. From the entry nonpaid
• It was a roadside checkpoint, Uyghur people being ordered from their trucks, cargos searched, guns pointing all too casually about the place.2014, Julian Sayarer, Life Cycles, John Blake, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 99. From the entry Kuytun
• He wore black three-quarter cargo pants with that same strange belt, except his had a chain running from that to his cargos.2013, Shannon Pearce, Into the Night, page 209. From the entry cargos
• The loading of hazardous cargoes is not permitted.From the entry loading

Meaning of cargo

1. noun Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
2. noun Western material goods.
3. verb To load with freight.

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Questions about the plural of cargo

What is the plural of cargo?

The plural of cargo is cargos or cargoes.

Which is correct, cargos or cargoes?

Both are used. cargoes is the more common of the two in English writing.

Is cargo countable?

Cargo is a countable and uncountable noun.