cargo

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Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/

Noun

cargo

1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
2. (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)."

Translations

• French: cargaison
• German: Fracht
• Italian: carico
• Portuguese: carga, mercadoria
• Russian: груз
• Spanish: carga

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Cargo

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Proper noun

1. Surname
2. A village in Kingmoor, Carlisle, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY3659).

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