 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cargo
noun: goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: {lading}, {freight},
{load}, {loading}, {payload}, {shipment}, {consignment}]
[also: {cargoes} (pl)]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cargo \Car"go\, noun; 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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "cargo":
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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