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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Depending on the trade lane, Linerlytica said that cargo booking volumes have fallen by between 5 percent to 20 percent from the two weeks prior with the trans-Pacific, Asia-Europe and Latin America routes all under heavy pressure.
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
Similarly, truck driving and cargo handling are safe only until autonomous fleets prove safer than human drivers.
—Alora Bopray, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
Not long before Oprah showed off her brown cargos, Gwyneth Paltrow wore a navy blue pair with a cropped trench coat.
—Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
But nobody should ride this bike, or its cousins, like a juice miser on a cargo run.
—Kevin Purdy, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2025
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
Similarly, truck driving and cargo handling are safe only until autonomous fleets prove safer than human drivers.
—Alora Bopray, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
Not long before Oprah showed off her brown cargos, Gwyneth Paltrow wore a navy blue pair with a cropped trench coat.
—Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
But nobody should ride this bike, or its cousins, like a juice miser on a cargo run.
—Kevin Purdy, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2025
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 23 Sep. 2025.
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