Thesaurus results for CARGO

cargo

noun

ˈkär-(ˌ)gō

Definition of cargo

as in payload

a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported we put all of our cargo on the pack animals and began our journey through the canyon

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Recent Examples of cargo The market underneath that result spent the entire quarter short of air cargo capacity, with demand growth outrunning supply in every month of the period. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026 Tracing the journey of Al Rayyan, one of Qatar’s oldest LNG tankers, Bloomberg tracked the vessel transferring its cargo to another ship in the Gulf of Oman before returning to Ras Laffan to reload. — semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026 SpaceX has reportedly stopped allowing other companies to launch their cargo, including satellites, into orbit on Falcon missions. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026 In the first six months of the year, there were 140 cargoes that left. — NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cargo

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Noun

These figures therefore should not be treated as interchangeable measures of payload capacity.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
The 32 payloads were deployed over a two-hour span beginning about 57 minutes after launch.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of payload

Noun

Referred to as financial toxicity, a diagnosis can result in harmful economic burden, stress and debt due to high out-of-pocket medical costs stemming from diagnostic tests, treatments, prescription drugs and hospital stays.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
But according to a new study, Connecticut is among the states with the highest leaf burden for homeowners, leaving residents to figure out what to do with all those leaves.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of burden

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Protesters blocked the loading and unloading of fresh food and other goods at supermarket distribution warehouses near Naples on Monday, Sky TG24 reported.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
At the loading dock, deliveries arrived in trucks lined up in a queue that had been planned a year in advance.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of loading

Noun

In some cases, data centers can operate as flexible loads, adjusting their electricity use to help stabilize the grid.

— April Roach, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
At the same time, reducing the amount of energy entering the system eases the load on mitochondria and reduces oxidative stress.

— Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of load

Noun

The freight forwarding giant expects Khor Fakkan and Fujairah to remain under significant pressure in the coming weeks.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
The San Francisco Fed noted another manufacturer’s complaint that every material purchased in recent weeks came with a freight surcharge.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of freight

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