cargo
see also: Cargo
Pronunciation Noun
Cargo
Proper noun
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see also: Cargo
Pronunciation Noun
cargo
- Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
- (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.
- 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, page xi
- "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo" cult)."
- 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, page xi
- French: cargaison
- German: Fracht
- Italian: carico
- Portuguese: carga, mercadoria
- Russian: груз
- Spanish: carga
Cargo
Proper noun
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