Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The freight carried by a ship, an aircraft, or another vehicle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An exclamation of surprise or contempt.
- noun The lading or freight of a ship; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a ship or other merchant vessel.
- noun [Appar. a slang use, perhaps of other origin. Cf.
cargo .] A term of contempt applied to a man, usually explained as “bully” or “bravo”: found only in the following passage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Freight carried by aship ,aircraft etc. - noun Papua New Guinea
Western material goods .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So impressed, in fact, that a new religion was born out of the old beliefs: the worship of ‘cargo’ cargo is pidgin for goods of any kind.
Archive 2006-03-01 Sam Jordison 2006
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So impressed, in fact, that a new religion was born out of the old beliefs: the worship of ‘cargo’ cargo is pidgin for goods of any kind.
Cargo Cults Sam Jordison 2006
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The freight cars get priority, * even though their cargo is usually a little less time sensitive than people.
Eschaton 2008
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University of Sheffield is developing what it calls a cargo-screening ferret that uses a combination of laser and fiber-optic technology to sniff out the tiniest traces of drugs, weapons, explosives and even illegal immigrants.
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So instead of writing new material today, I was rewriting scenes I wrote in the past couple of days, to ensure that I got one character (and important ... let's call it "cargo") into orbit where they have to be for the rest of the book to pan out the way I envision.
Archive 2006-10-22 Edward Willett 2006
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So instead of writing new material today, I was rewriting scenes I wrote in the past couple of days, to ensure that I got one character (and important ... let's call it "cargo") into orbit where they have to be for the rest of the book to pan out the way I envision.
The first sentence I wrote today... Edward Willett 2006
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A friend of ours, a Mexican, returned from the US and met us in cargo shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and untied jogging shoes .... we teased him unmercifully that he had turned into a gringo.
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A friend of ours, a Mexican, returned from the US and met us in cargo shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and untied jogging shoes .... we teased him unmercifully that he had turned into a gringo.
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A friend of ours, a Mexican, returned from the US and met us in cargo shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and untied jogging shoes .... we teased him unmercifully that he had turned into a gringo.
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A friend of ours, a Mexican, returned from the US and met us in cargo shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and untied jogging shoes .... we teased him unmercifully that he had turned into a gringo.
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