cargos
- 1Plural of cargo.
The freighters carried mixed cargos of grain and steel.
Two cargos of timber arrived at the port this week.
Note
The regular plural, made with a plain -s. The spelling cargoes, with -es, is also standard, and the two mean the same thing. It counts shipments of freight, as in two cargos of timber, and in Papua New Guinea English it can also refer to Western material goods. Keep it apart from the clothing word, where cargos names a garment rather than a number of loads.
- 2Casual pants featuring large patch pockets on the thighs, often made of sturdy cotton.
The hikers favored cargos because the deep pockets held maps and snacks.
He rolled the cuffs of his khaki cargos before wading into the stream.
Note
A clipped clothing word: cargo pants is cut down to its first half, and the plural ending that trouser words carry is kept. Shannon Pearce's Into the Night (2013) uses both in a single sentence, first cargo pants and then cargos. The short form works best once the garment is clear from context. Like pants, it takes plural agreement: these cargos fit, not this cargo.
cargos is a form of cargo
cargo, noun: The goods that a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle transports. Full entry
- Spelling
- cargo → cargos: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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