/ˈkɑːɡəʊ/, /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/
OriginBorrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga.
- countable, uncountableFreight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
“The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.”
“"[…]her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,[…]"”
“"[…]but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."”
- Papua-New-Guinea, countable, uncountableWestern 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 ”
“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.”
“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?·”
- transitiveTo load with freight.
- countable, uncountableA surname.
- countable, uncountableA village in Kingmoor parish, Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3659).
- countable, uncountableA locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
Formscargos(plural) · cargoes(plural) · cargos(present, singular, third-person) · cargoing(participle, present) · cargoed(participle, past) · cargoed(past) · Cargos(plural)