cargo

IPA: kˈɑrgoʊ

noun

  • Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
  • (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.
  • A surname.
  • A village in Kingmoor parish, Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3659).
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Examples of "cargo" in Sentences

  • The freight cars get priority, * even though their cargo is usually a little less time sensitive than people.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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