English
Etymology
From Sp. cargar ("to load"), from LL. carricare.
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��(r)ɡ��|-��(r)ɡ��
Noun
cargo (Plural: cargos or cargoes)
- freight|Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
#*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."
- (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)."
Derived terms
cargo cult
Translations
Danish: gods n
Finnish: lasti
French: cargaison f
German: Fracht f
Hebrew: ��ע� (mit'an) m
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Old English: hlæst n
Russian: г��з (gruz) и
Category:English nouns with irregular plurals
French
Etymology
From English #English|cargo.
Pronunciation
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w:IPA|IPA: /ka�.ɡ�/
w:SAMPA|SAMPA: /kaR.gO/
Noun
cargo (Plural: #French|cargos)
- ship designed to carry a cargo.
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