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cargo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/ (General-American)
• (US) audio
• /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
   • "[…]her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,[…]" 1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson:
   • "[…]but human life is worth more than ships or cargos." 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence:
   • A battery of several microcannons can be used to fire the drug cargoes at different times and different depths. “We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep. 2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times:
   • The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.
   • 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:
2. (Papua-New-Guinea, countable, uncountable) Western material goods.
   • Why is it that Europeans, despite their likely genetic disadvantage and (in modern times) their undoubted developmental disadvantage, ended up with much more of the cargo?· 1998, Jared M. Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, page 22:
   • He was the only one to tell me that he thought it was possible that cargo was made by the ancestors. One or two others were noncommittal, but most clearly denied it. 2002, Dorothy K. Billings, Cargo Cult as Theater: Political Performance in the Pacific, page 60:
   • In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult. 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult:
   • 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:
   • People turned to traditional or innovative religious ritual to obtain "cargo." 2004, Lamont Lindstrom, “Cargo Cult at the Third Millennium”, in Holger Jebens, editor, Cargo, Cult, and Culture Critique:
   • And beyond anthropologists and Islanders, others have been enchanted by cargo as well. 2019, Lamont Lindstrom ·, Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond, page 5:

Forms

Deriveds

cargo cult science · cargo net · cargo bicycle · air cargo · cargo shorts · cargoplane · cargo bike · all-cargo · cargo vessel · cargo trousers · cargo liner · cargo culting · wanted cargo · cargo-200 · cargoless · cargo cult · cargo pants · cargoism · cargo plane · cargo pallet · cargo bin · cargo jack · cargo ship · cargo container · cargo aircraft · bulk cargo · Cargo Fleet · hot cargo · general cargo · cargo hold

Translations (146)

grc γόμος (freight carried by a ship) · es cargamento (freight carried by a ship) · ug يۈك (freight carried by a ship) · mk товар (freight carried by a ship) · hi पोतभार (freight carried by a ship) · sq ngarkesë (freight carried by a ship) · fi lasti (freight carried by a ship) · lo ສິນຄ້າຂົນສົ່ງ (freight carried by a ship) · ko 짐 (freight carried by a ship) · cop ⲁⲩⲉⲓⲛ (freight carried by a ship) · grc φορτίον (freight carried by a ship) · ca càrrega (freight carried by a ship) · cop ⲁⲃⲓⲛ (freight carried by a ship) · mi utanga (freight carried by a ship) · fi taakka (freight carried by a ship) · my ကုန်စည် (freight carried by a ship) · tr yük (freight carried by a ship) · yi לאַסט (freight carried by a ship) · yue 儎 /傤 (freight carried by a ship) · uk ванта́ж (freight carried by a ship) · sv last (freight carried by a ship) · vi hàng hóa (freight carried by a ship) · hi खेप (freight carried by a ship) · cmn 貨 /货 (freight carried by a ship) · ar حِمْل (freight carried by a ship) · pl ładunek (freight carried by a ship) · la onus (freight carried by a ship) · hu fuvar (freight carried by a ship) · nb frakt (freight carried by a ship) · yi פֿראַכט (freight carried by a ship) · nn last (freight carried by a ship) · nb last (freight carried by a ship) · da last (freight carried by a ship) · sah таһаҕас (freight carried by a ship) · bg ко́рабен това́р (freight carried by a ship) · ang hlæst (freight carried by a ship) · et last (freight carried by a ship) · de Ladung (freight carried by a ship) · lt krovinys (freight carried by a ship) · sl tovor (freight carried by a ship) · sh ка̏рго (freight carried by a ship) · be груз (freight carried by a ship) · id kargo (freight carried by a ship) · km ទំនិញ (freight carried by a ship) · uz mol (freight carried by a ship) · tg бор (freight carried by a ship) · gd carago (freight carried by a ship) · es cargazón (freight carried by a ship) · yue 貨 /货 (freight carried by a ship) · pt carga (freight carried by a ship) · da fragt (freight carried by a ship) · bn কার্গো (freight carried by a ship) · sk náklad (freight carried by a ship) · nl vracht (freight carried by a ship) · ko 바리 (freight carried by a ship) · bn মালপত্র (freight carried by a ship) · da gods (freight carried by a ship) · ru груз (freight carried by a ship) · ko 화물 (freight carried by a ship) · ky жүк (freight carried by a ship) · sv frakt (freight carried by a ship) · be цяжа́р (freight carried by a ship) · fi rahti (freight carried by a ship) · tl kargo (freight carried by a ship) · mn ачаа (freight carried by a ship) · cmn 貨物 /货物 (freight carried by a ship) · ru това́р (freight carried by a ship) · ka ტვირთი (freight carried by a ship) · ar شِحْنَة (freight carried by a ship) · gl carga (freight carried by a ship) · fa-ira بار (freight carried by a ship) · mt merkanzija (freight carried by a ship) · ba йөк (freight carried by a ship) · fi kuorma (freight carried by a ship) · io kargo (freight carried by a ship) · ru ка́рго (freight carried by a ship) · de Fracht (freight carried by a ship) · ur مال (freight carried by a ship) · lv krava (freight carried by a ship) · ar حُمُولَة (freight carried by a ship) · ro marfă (freight carried by a ship) · cy cargo (freight carried by a ship) · bn মাল (freight carried by a ship) · cs náklad (freight carried by a ship) · arz حمولة (freight carried by a ship) · to uta (freight carried by a ship) · ja 積荷 (freight carried by a ship) · ka კარგო (freight carried by a ship) · sh tòvar (freight carried by a ship) · ka ფრახტი (freight carried by a ship) · es carga (freight carried by a ship) · my ကုန် (freight carried by a ship) · kk жүк (freight carried by a ship) · hu rakomány (freight carried by a ship) · bg това́р (freight carried by a ship) · sw shehena (freight carried by a ship) · gd luchd (freight carried by a ship) · ur کھیپ (freight carried by a ship) · fr cargaison (freight carried by a ship) · de Cargo (freight carried by a ship) · it carico (freight carried by a ship) · he מִטְעָן (freight carried by a ship) · is farmur (freight carried by a ship) · izh rahti (freight carried by a ship) · eo kargo (freight carried by a ship) · tt йөк (freight carried by a ship) · el φορτίο (freight carried by a ship) · mk карго (freight carried by a ship) · sh kȁrgo (freight carried by a ship) · uz yuk (freight carried by a ship) · yue 貨物 /货物 (freight carried by a ship) · th สินค้า (freight carried by a ship) · tg мол (freight carried by a ship) · az yük (freight carried by a ship) · sm uta (freight carried by a ship) · nn frakt (freight carried by a ship) · hy բեռ (freight carried by a ship) · ps بار (freight carried by a ship) · sh tèret (freight carried by a ship) · vi hàng hoá (freight carried by a ship) · sh то̀вар (freight carried by a ship) · my ကုန်ပစ္စည်း (freight carried by a ship) · ja 貨物 (freight carried by a ship) · et praht (freight carried by a ship) · ms kargo (freight carried by a ship) · ps کارګو (freight carried by a ship) · cop ⲁⲟⲩⲓⲛ (freight carried by a ship) · nl lading (freight carried by a ship) · egy ini-nw:Z2ss (freight carried by a ship) · hi नौभार (freight carried by a ship) · ur کارْگو (freight carried by a ship) · mi uta (freight carried by a ship) · gl frete (freight carried by a ship) · lo ສິນຄ້າ (freight carried by a ship) · ga lasta (freight carried by a ship) · tk ýük (freight carried by a ship) · km បន្ទុក (freight carried by a ship) · io kargajo (freight carried by a ship) · hi बोझ (freight carried by a ship) · hi माल (freight carried by a ship) · et laadung (freight carried by a ship) · fa-ira مَحْمولِه (freight carried by a ship) · tg маҳмула (freight carried by a ship) · tl kargamento (freight carried by a ship) · ka გემის ტვირთი (freight carried by a ship) · sh тѐрет (freight carried by a ship)

cargo en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/ (General-American)
• (US) audio
• /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To load with freight.

Forms