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
With a low-key cargo look and a mid-thigh fit, these jean shorts take me back to summer break hangouts with high school friends.
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Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 31 July 2025
Global air cargo capacity jumped 1.7 percent year over year to reach 51.4 billion available cargo tonne-kilometers (ACTK) in June.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 31 July 2025
Once the aircraft has clocked up more than a million kilometers of cargo hauling, passengers flights are expected to follow.
—Paul Ridden
july 30, New Atlas, 30 July 2025
The shipwreck—a cargo vessel called Kilmore that sank in 1906—is resting on the seafloor roughly 20 miles from Ostend, a coastal city in northwest Belgium.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2025
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Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 31 July 2025
Global air cargo capacity jumped 1.7 percent year over year to reach 51.4 billion available cargo tonne-kilometers (ACTK) in June.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 31 July 2025
Once the aircraft has clocked up more than a million kilometers of cargo hauling, passengers flights are expected to follow.
—Paul Ridden
july 30, New Atlas, 30 July 2025
The shipwreck—a cargo vessel called Kilmore that sank in 1906—is resting on the seafloor roughly 20 miles from Ostend, a coastal city in northwest Belgium.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cargo
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The first were light gray-colored craft flying low and relatively slow to their targets, carrying high-explosive and fragmentation payloads and powered by turbines.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
1 Aug. 2025
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At the same time, the American space agency is still pressing ahead with its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS, colloquially called ‘Clips’), capitalizing on the lower costs of the private sector to deliver science and tech payloads to the Moon.—
Ruxandra Iordache,
CNBC,
1 Aug. 2025
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Kenya’s foreign debt burden came under the spotlight in two separate ratings agency reports.—
Preeti Jha,
semafor.com,
28 July 2025
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Users often juggle dozens—sometimes hundreds—of credentials, leading to frequent resets, weak reuse and support burdens.—
Peter Barker,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Standardized containers reduced loading, shipping, and unloading costs dramatically and immediately.—
Tony Morley,
National Review,
25 July 2025
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Aside from residential use, the development will feature 390 parking spaces and two loading spaces within an interior garage, about 4,500 square feet of ground-level retail space, as well as a leasing lobby, lounge, roof deck, pool, coworking space and two courtyard amenity spaces.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
24 July 2025
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The screens also have themes with some control over screen backgrounds, and there are loads of ambient lighting options.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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For example, another Reddit user showed off a photo of a load of groceries that Agent apparently purchased.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 July 2025
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Our trip began near Metropolitan Avenue in Maspeth, Queens, the fourth stop on the line, and the home of the freight company New York & Atlantic Railway.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
29 July 2025
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Weather disruptions, labor disputes and ongoing attacks in the Red Sea are just some of the concerns plaguing freight forwarders and carriers.—
SJ STAFF,
Sourcing Journal,
29 July 2025
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“Cargo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cargo. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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