cargo

Etymology

From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricare.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)ɡəʊ

Noun

cargo (countable and uncountable, plural cargos or cargoes)

1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
   • 1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson

     "…her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"

   • 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence,

     "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."

2. (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.
   • 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, page xi

     "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo" cult)."

Anagrams

• Cogar, Crago

Etymology

From English cargo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.ɡo/

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. ship designed to carry a cargo

Further reading

• “cargo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

cargo m (plural carghi)

1. cargo boat
2. freighter (boat or plane)

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. post, occupation, profession
2. office; responsibility

Noun

cargo m (genitive singular cargo, plural cargothan)

1. Alternative form of carago.

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. charge, burden
2. position, post
3. (finance) debit
4. (heraldry) charge

cargo m (plural cargos, feminine carga, feminine plural cargas)

1. higher-up

Verb

cargo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cargar.

Adjective

cargo m (feminine singular carga, masculine plural cargi, feminine plural carge)

1. loaded, laden
2. charged
3. full