cargo
freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
Example
“The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.”
Other meanings
Western material goods.
Synonyms
- freight
- load
- loading
- payload
- shipment
A kind of
- merchandise
Related words
- cargo aircraft
- cargo plane
- cargoism
- cargoless
- cargoplane
- cargo cult
- Cargo Fleet
- hot cargo
- cargo liner
- air cargo
- all-cargo
- bulk cargo
Word history
From Latin "carricō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cargo” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.