cargo
noun
car·go
ˈkär-(ˌ)gō 
plural cargoes or cargos
: the goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, airplane, or vehicle : freight
Dock workers were unloading the ship's cargo.
Synonyms
Examples of cargo in a Sentence
The ship was carrying a cargo of crude oil.
we put all of our cargo on the pack animals and began our journey through the canyon
Recent Examples on the Web
The channel, which provides access to an essential international cargo destination, closed to vessel traffic on March 26, after a 213-million pound cargo ship lost power and crashed into one of the bridge’s support columns, causing the structure to collapse.
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Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 10 June 2024
Seating for seven or eight is available and cargo capacity is 75.6 cubic feet.
—James Raia, The Mercury News, 9 June 2024
Fact check:Lunar rover folded up into cargo bay for Apollo missions to moon
Artemis 2 is scheduled to launch in late 2025 with a crew of three Americans and one Canadian astronaut.
—Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 June 2024
The missions are part of the larger Commercial Crew Program at NASA, which uses American rockets and spacecraft to launch astronauts and cargo to the ISS with the hope of helping the federal space agency prepare for its upcoming moon and Mars missions.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 June 2024
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Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 10 June 2024
Seating for seven or eight is available and cargo capacity is 75.6 cubic feet.
—James Raia, The Mercury News, 9 June 2024
Fact check:Lunar rover folded up into cargo bay for Apollo missions to moon
Artemis 2 is scheduled to launch in late 2025 with a crew of three Americans and one Canadian astronaut.
—Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 June 2024
The missions are part of the larger Commercial Crew Program at NASA, which uses American rockets and spacecraft to launch astronauts and cargo to the ISS with the hope of helping the federal space agency prepare for its upcoming moon and Mars missions.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 June 2024
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“Cargo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cargo. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
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