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- Dictionarycargo/ˈkɑːɡəʊ/
noun
- 1. goods carried on a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle: "transportation of bulk cargo"
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freight noun. Fewer examples. cargo vessels. Smoke detectors are now installed in cargo holds. More than half the ship's 130,000-ton cargo of crude oil has already been spilled. This is where the planes would land and unload their cargo. Nuclear materials are currently carried on both cargo and passenger flights.
The meaning of CARGO is the goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, airplane, or vehicle : freight. How to use cargo in a sentence.
CARGO meaning: 1. the goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other large vehicle: 2. the goods carried by a ship…. Learn more.
Cargo refers to goods carried by a large vehicle, like a plane, ship, train, or truck. See a giant truck on the highway piled high with boxes, lumber, or new cars? It's carrying cargo.
2 meanings: 1. a. goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle; freight b. (as modifier) 2. any load.... Click for more definitions.
noun. goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle; freight. ( as modifier ) a cargo vessel. any load. the train pulled in with its cargo of new arrivals.
1. a. goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle; freight. b. ( as modifier ): a cargo vessel. 2. any load: the train pulled in with its cargo of new arrivals. [C17: from Spanish: from cargar to load, from Late Latin carricāre to load a vehicle, from carrus car]
Definition of cargo noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
noun. goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle; freight. ( as modifier ) a cargo vessel. any load. the train pulled in with its cargo of new arrivals. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of cargo 1. 1640–50; from Spanish: “a load,” noun derivative of cargar “to load,” from Late Latin carricāre; charge.
goods that are carried in a vehicle: a cargo of oil. a cargo ship / plane. (Definition of cargo from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
