Meaning of CARGO
| Pronunciation: | | 'kârgow
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| | Definition: | | [n] goods carried by a large vehicle |
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| | Synonyms: | | consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
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| | See Also: | | merchandise, product, wares | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Car"go\, n.; pl. {Cargoes}. [Sp. cargo, carga, burden,
load, from cargar to load, from cargar to load, charge, See
{Charge}.]
The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods,
merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat;
load; freight.
Cargoes of food or clothing. --E. Everett.
Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods
only, and not to live animals or persons. --Burill.
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| | Related Terms: | | baggage, bale, burden, burdening, burthen, carload, cartload, charge, charging, consignment, cross, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, duty, embarrassment, encumbrance, freight, freightage, goods, hamper, handicap, haul, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, lading, load, loading, luggage, lumber, merchandise, millstone, onus, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pack, payload, penalty, pressure, saddling, shipload, shipment, superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax, taxing, trailerload, trainload, trouble, truckload, vanload, weight, white elephant |
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