Cargo

English

Noun

Cargo (countable and uncountable; plural Cargos or cargoes)

1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
2. (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.

Adjectives for Cargo

guarded; guilty; indifferent; precious; smuggled; surreptitious; undeclared; worthless.

Verbs for Cargo

burden with—; dampen—; discharge—; disinfect—; haul—; hoist—; import—; inspect—; insure—; land—; levy on—; load—; salvage—; ship—; tax—; transport—; underwrite—; —ballasts; —weighs.

Derived terms

• cargo cult

Thesaurus

luggage, lumber, merchandise, millstone, onus, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pack, payload, penalty, pressure, saddling, shipload, shipment, superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax, taxing, trailerload, trainload, trouble, truckload, vanload, weight, white elephant, baggage, bale, burden, burdening, burthen, carload, cartload, charge, charging, consignment, cross, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, duty, embarrassment, encumbrance, freight, freightage, goods, hamper, handicap, haul, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, lading, load, loading,

Etymology

From Spanish cargar ("to load"), from Late Latin carricare.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)ɡəʊ