cargo

Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/

The English word “cargo” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
Western material goods.

verb

To load with freight.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm.

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