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cargo

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noun/ˈkɑːɡəʊ//ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/
  1. 1

    Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.countableuncountable

    • The plane was overloaded with cargo. It was a cargo of live animals.
  2. 2

    Western material goods.Papua-New-Guineacountableuncountable

    • In this study of colonial and postcolonial Fiji, Martha Kaplan examines the effects of narratives made real and traces a complex history that began neither as a search for cargo, nor as a cult.
    • Why is it that Europeans, despite their likely genetic disadvantage and (in modern times) their undoubted developmental disadvantage, ended up with much more of the cargo?·
verb/ˈkɑːɡəʊ//ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/
  1. 1

    To load with freight.transitive

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