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.
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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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SpaceX’s Falcon rockets propelled cargo to orbit 133 times in 2024, with one failure, the vast majority of the 145 launches attempted in the U.S. last year and more than half of the 263 worldwide, according to space activity tracker Jonathan McDowell.
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Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Port of Long Beach media relations manager Lee Peterson confirmed that the port’s terminals, main road and rail conduits for cargo are all not impacted by the fires.
—Booth Moore, WWD, 8 Jan. 2025
The waves were too large to board the cargo vessel to investigate further, the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration said.
—Meaghan Tobin, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Dream Chaser has won NASA contracts to fly seven cargo missions to and from the International Space Station.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
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Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Port of Long Beach media relations manager Lee Peterson confirmed that the port’s terminals, main road and rail conduits for cargo are all not impacted by the fires.
—Booth Moore, WWD, 8 Jan. 2025
The waves were too large to board the cargo vessel to investigate further, the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration said.
—Meaghan Tobin, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Dream Chaser has won NASA contracts to fly seven cargo missions to and from the International Space Station.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Cargo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cargo. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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