The meaning of Cargo

noun

Suitcases and bags containing personal belongings packed for travelling; luggage.

Usage examples:

We collected our baggage before clearing customs

noun

An examination to test or ascertain accuracy, quality, or satisfactory condition.

Usage examples:

A campaign calling for regular checks on gas appliances

noun

The bags that you take with you when you travel; luggage

Usage examples:

How many pieces of baggage do you have?, everybody brings their own baggage to viewing a work of art.

noun

An amount of cargo or number of passengers which will fill a ship or boat.

Usage examples:

A boatload of coal

noun

A load, typically a heavy one.

Usage examples:

And laying my heavy burden in the safe hands of the luggage compartment i went to my seat and was g…

verb

Load heavily.

Usage examples:

She walked forwards burdened with a wooden box

noun

A duty or responsibility that is hard to bear

Usage examples:

I don’t want to be a burden on my children., he was burdened with debts.

noun

A batch of goods destined for or delivered to someone.

Usage examples:

A consignment of drugs

verb

Satisfy (someone).

Usage examples:

Nothing would content her apart from going off to barcelona

noun

A state of satisfaction.

Usage examples:

The greater part of the century was a time of content

noun

The things that are held or included in something.

Usage examples:

She unscrewed the top of the flask and drank the contents

noun

The action of delivering letters, parcels, or goods.

Usage examples:

Allow up to 28 days for delivery

noun

The act of taking goods, letters, or packages to people's houses or places of work

Usage examples:

[ c ] the company gets two deliveries a day., [ u ] you can pay for the rug on delivery (= when it …

noun

The act of taking goods, letters, parcels, etc. to a place

Usage examples:

Please allow 14 days for delivery., mail/parcel/postal delivery, a delivery driver/truck/van, on de…

noun

Goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.

Usage examples:

A decline in the amount of freight carried by rail

verb

Transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft.

Usage examples:

The metals had been freighted from the city

noun

Goods that are transported from one place to another by ship, aircraft, train, or truck

Usage examples:

Most planes carry both freight and passengers.

noun

The carrying of goods in bulk.

Usage examples:

Port augusta is handicapped by rail distance out of the barrier trade - at least so it seems, thoug…

noun

The amount of money charged for transporting goods by ship, aircraft, train, or truck

Usage examples:

The contract provided that the consignee should pay the freightage., the owner will be compensated …

plural noun

Merchandise or possessions.

Usage examples:

Imports of luxury goods

plural noun

Items for sale, or possessions that can be moved

Usage examples:

They sell leather goods such as wallets, purses, and briefcases.

noun

Things for sale, or the things that you own

Usage examples:

There is a 25% discount on all electrical goods until the end of the week., fake/counterfeit goods …

verb

(of a person) pull or drag with effort or force.

Usage examples:

He hauled his bike out of the shed

noun

A quantity of something that has been stolen or is possessed illegally.

Usage examples:

They escaped with a haul of antiques

verb

Draw slowly or heavily

noun

The action of loading a ship with cargo.

Usage examples:

The fifth autumn was rich in golden cornstacks, rising in thick clusters among the distant hedgerow…

verb

Put cargo on board (a ship).

noun

Goods carried by a ship, plane, truck, etc., or the act of putting these goods on the vehicle

noun

A heavy or bulky thing that is being carried or is about to be carried.

Usage examples:

In addition to their own food, they must carry a load of up to eighty pounds

verb

Fill (a vehicle, ship, container, etc.) with a large amount of something.

Usage examples:

They go to calais to load up their vans with cheap beer

noun

Goods to be bought and sold.

Usage examples:

Shops which offered an astonishing range of merchandise

verb

Promote the sale of (goods), especially by their presentation in retail outlets.

Usage examples:

A new breakfast food can easily be merchandised

noun

Commodities offered for sale

noun

As much cargo or as many people as a ship can carry.

Usage examples:

A shipload of food and medical aid was sent

noun

The action of shipping goods.

Usage examples:

Logs waiting for shipment

noun

Goods transported together, or the act of transporting them

Usage examples:

[ c ] a shipment of vegetables arrived last week., [ u ] it was taken to the airport for shipment t…

noun

The act of sending goods somewhere

Usage examples:

We are required to pay for the goods before shipment., it takes several days for a shipment to clea…

noun

A quantity of goods that can be transported in a truck.

Usage examples:

A truckload of chemicals

noun

The amount a truck can carry

Usage examples:

Fig. in this case, lawyers filed court papers by the truckload (= in large amounts).

noun

The amount of something that fills a truck

Usage examples:

They supplied 13,250 truckloads of sand., they are making a truckload of money on this deal., they …