Cargo

Definitions

1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. Western material goods.
   Papua-New-Guinea, countable, uncountable
4. A village in Kingmoor parish, Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3659).
   countable, uncountable
5. A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

50 more languages

العربيةالشحنحملحمولةشحنة+ 1 more

Azərbaycan diliyük

Беларускаяцяжар

Българскитовар

Bosanskikravalastiterettovartransporttrhбортереттовартрх+ 7 more

Catalàcàrrega

Češtinanáklad

Danskfragtgodslast

Ελληνικάβάροςφορτίο

Esperantokargo

Eestilast

فارسیبارمحموله

Suomikargokuormalastirahtirahtitavarataakka+ 3 more

Gàidhligcaragoluchd

Galegocargafrete

עבריתמטען

हिन्दीकार्गोखेपनौभारपोतभारबोझमाल+ 3 more

Hrvatskikravalastiterettovartransporttrhбортереттовартрх+ 7 more

Magyarrakomány

Հայերենբեռ

Bahasa Indonesialadingmuatan

Íslenskafarmur

Italianocargocarico

日本語積荷船荷荷貨物+ 1 more

ქართულიტვირთი

Қазақ тіліжүк

ភាសាខ្មែរទំនិញបន្ទុក

한국어바리짐하물화물+ 1 more

Kurdîkargotransport

Latinaonerariusonus

Lietuviųkrovinys

Latviešukrava

Te Reo Māoriuta

Македонскитовар

Монголачаа

Nederlandsladingvracht

Polskifrachtładunektransport

Portuguêscargacargo

Românămarfă

Русскийгрузка́рготовар

Shqipngarkesë

Српскиkravalastiterettovartransporttrhбортереттовартрх+ 7 more

Svenskafraktfraktgodsgodslast+ 1 more

Kiswahilishehena

Тоҷикӣбор

ไทยสินค้า

Türkçeyük

Українськавантаж

O'zbekchayuk

Tiếng Việthànghàng hoá

Examples

“The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live⟳ animals.”

“"[…]her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have⟳ been landed in the island of Teneriffe,[…]"”

“"[…]but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."”

“How will heaven be filled if the earth ceases to send⟳ its cargoes?”

“A battery of several microcannons can be used to fire the drug cargoes at different times and different depths. “We have⟳ been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver⟳ therapeutic cargo deep.”

“The principal change⟳ was that two of the 'satans', Kilibob and Manup, were now identified by different groups as God and Jesus Christ, as cargo deities. This expressed the return⟳ to hostility towards Europeans and a reassessment of native rights to the cargo.”

“In this study⟳ of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search⟳ for cargo, nor as a cult.”

“Why is it that Europeans, despite their likely genetic disadvantage and (in modern times) their undoubted developmental disadvantage, ended up with much more of the cargo?·”

“He was the only one to tell⟳ me that he thought it was possible that cargo was made by the ancestors. One or two others were noncommittal, but most clearly denied it.”

“People turned to traditional or innovative religious ritual to obtain⟳ "cargo."”

“And beyond anthropologists and Islanders, others have⟳ been enchanted by cargo as well.”

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