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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

cargo
    n 1: goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading,
         freight, load, loading, payload, shipment,
         consignment]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cargo \Car"go\, n.; pl. Cargoes. [Sp. cargo, carga, burden,
   load, from cargar to load, from cargar to load, charge, See
   Charge.]
   The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods,
   merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat;
   load; freight.
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         Cargoes of food or clothing.             --E. Everett.
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   Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods
         only, and not to live animals or persons. --Burill.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

CARGO, mar. law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel. Abb. on Sh. 
Index, h.t.; 1 Dall. 197; Merl. Rep. h.t.; 2 Gill & John. 136. This term 
is usually applied to goods only, and does not include human beings. 1 
Phill. Ins. 185; 4 Pick. 429. But in a more extensive and less technical 
sense, it includes persons; thus we say a cargo of emigrants. See 7 Mann. 
Gr. 729, 744.

Thesaurus Results for Cargo:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

baggage, bale, burden, burdening, burthen, carload, cartload, charge, charging, consignment, cross, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, duty, embarrassment, encumbrance, freight, freightage, goods, hamper, handicap, haul, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, lading, load, loading, luggage, lumber, merchandise, millstone, onus, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, pack, payload, penalty, pressure, saddling, shipload, shipment, superincumbency, surcharge, task, tax, taxing, trailerload, trainload, trouble, truckload, vanload, weight, white elephant

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