Cargo
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -É‘Ë(r)ɡəʊ
Origin
From Spanish cargo ("load, burden"), from cargar ("to load"), from Late Latin carricare.
Full definition of cargo
Noun
cargo
(countable and uncountable; plural cargos)- 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)."