as in payload
a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported
we put all of our cargo on the pack animals and began our journey through the canyon
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Recent Examples of cargo
Finnish officials discovered the food after Swedish customs officials tipped them off to a cargo shipment and abnormalities in customs documents.
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
German officials called it sabotage and the Danish navy stopped a Chinese cargo ship that passed over both cables.
—Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
In an aerial view, cargo ship Dali is seen after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland.
—Jane Pauley, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
Stowaways in the unpressurized wheel houses and cargo holds of planes have to contend with freezing conditions, with temperatures that can reach between minus 58 degrees and minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit, Reuters reported.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
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Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
German officials called it sabotage and the Danish navy stopped a Chinese cargo ship that passed over both cables.
—Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
In an aerial view, cargo ship Dali is seen after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland.
—Jane Pauley, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024
Stowaways in the unpressurized wheel houses and cargo holds of planes have to contend with freezing conditions, with temperatures that can reach between minus 58 degrees and minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit, Reuters reported.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cargo
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And in a first, the Starship on Monday will attempt a Starlink payload deployment test – a key capability for the vehicle in the future.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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But according to Blue Origin, a larger nose cone gives New Glenn twice the cargo volume of Falcon 9, and its powerful engines are designed to propel double the payload mass.Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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To ease their burden, PwC urges automakers to be as efficient as possible including regionalization and improving supply chains.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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On January 14, two bills advanced in the Labor Committee that might well be the spark that ignites widespread labor unrest, even as the push imposes heavier burdens on our state’s consumers and taxpayers.Frank Ricci, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
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Dave has been amazing transporting all our bags and boxes, loading and unloading.Lexi Carson, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2025
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Cleanup crews must do most of the work by hand, sorting, labeling and loading materials into the trucks.Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2025
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In their world, there were more hands to share the load, more voices to call out, more feet to hold the line.Katherine Schulten, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Gigabyte was showing off a pair of high-end systems built out with the C500, in concert with the company’s AI TOP utility, which was being demoed with a feature linking the two systems via Thunderbolt and the two sharing the load of AI processing tasks.John Burek, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
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The new center is also a short distance from the DHL international air freight hub, enabling speedier processing of incoming merchandise, outgoing orders and returns.Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 6 Jan. 2025
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Trade relationships like these have led to growth in China's freight trade, with the nation's rails transporting a total of 3.99 billion tons of cargo in 2024, a 1.9 percent increase from the year before.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Cargo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cargo. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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