cargo
noun
car·go
ˈkär-(ˌ)gō 
plural cargoes or cargos
: the goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, airplane, or vehicle : freight
Dock workers were unloading the ship's cargo.
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Examples of cargo in a Sentence
The ship was carrying a cargo of crude oil.
we put all of our cargo on the pack animals and began our journey through the canyon
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Dex gives him mouth-to-mouth to revive him and then … leaves him on the cargo ship.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Twelve cargo carriers operate from Colombia and nine from Ecuador.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
When the Western military left, islanders created makeshift imitations of the infrastructure — control towers built from bamboo, a plane carved from wood — in the hope that this ritual would cause more cargo to arrive.
—Laura Regensdorf Katharine Sohn Laura Bannister Osman Can Yerebakan Shannon Adducci, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
In recent years, OSHA has repeatedly fined Musk’s companies for serious safety violations, including an incident at a SpaceX facility in Texas in which a worker fell to his death from a truck whose cargo had not been properly secured.
—Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Twelve cargo carriers operate from Colombia and nine from Ecuador.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
When the Western military left, islanders created makeshift imitations of the infrastructure — control towers built from bamboo, a plane carved from wood — in the hope that this ritual would cause more cargo to arrive.
—Laura Regensdorf Katharine Sohn Laura Bannister Osman Can Yerebakan Shannon Adducci, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
In recent years, OSHA has repeatedly fined Musk’s companies for serious safety violations, including an incident at a SpaceX facility in Texas in which a worker fell to his death from a truck whose cargo had not been properly secured.
—Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Cargo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cargo. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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