# cargo

Pronunciation: US say "KAHR-goh" /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/; UK say "KAH-goh" /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/

## Noun

1. The goods that a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle transports.
   - Simple: Goods that a ship, plane, or truck carries from one place to another.
   - _The freighter left port with cargo bound for Rotterdam._
   - _Airlines charge by weight for any cargo carried in the hold._
3. Material goods from Western societies, such as manufactured tools, clothing, and packaged food. *(dialectal, Papua New Guinea)*
   - Simple: Factory-made goods from Western countries, such as radios, tools, and canned food.
   - _Followers of the movement built airstrips in the jungle, believing cargo would descend from the sky for them._
   - _The missionaries' crates of cargo convinced some villagers that ritual, not labor, was the source of such wealth._

## Verb

2. To load a ship, aircraft, or vehicle with freight.
   - Simple: To put goods on a ship, plane, or truck for it to carry.
   - _Dockhands cargoed the vessel through the night to catch the morning tide._
   - _An experienced ground crew can cargo two aircraft in under an hour._

## Origin

Borrowed from Spanish cargo ("load, burden"), from cargar ("to load"), which comes from Late Latin carricō. It is a doublet of charge and carga.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cargo (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).