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.
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
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However, amid the worsening violence and frequent attacks at the ports, a number of shipping lines have ceased calling directly on Port-au-Prince and instead route cargo through regional hubs such as Jamaica before transferring to smaller feeder vessels.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
Once completed, the novel facilities will raise annual cargo capacity at the Three Gorges Dam to 370 million US tons (336 million tonnes).
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
The company believed the cargo had been stolen and reported the incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local authorities.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 9 June 2026
However, this is not a simple process, and millions of dollars’ worth of cargo can be held at a single time by CBP upon detention, disrupting the consistency of product supply and the scale of profitability.
—Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 9 June 2026
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026
Once completed, the novel facilities will raise annual cargo capacity at the Three Gorges Dam to 370 million US tons (336 million tonnes).
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
The company believed the cargo had been stolen and reported the incident to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local authorities.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 9 June 2026
However, this is not a simple process, and millions of dollars’ worth of cargo can be held at a single time by CBP upon detention, disrupting the consistency of product supply and the scale of profitability.
—Paxton Honerkamp, CNBC, 9 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for cargo
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“Cargo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cargo. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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