cargo.
Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
Meaning & usage
Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.
Western material goods.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm.
To load with freight.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm.
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