(n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measures include tightened financial restrictions and cargo inspections.
(2) Four pilots with "extensive experience" in transporting some of the world's most precious cargo, including white rhinos and penguins, were on the flight.
(3) He’s bought the cattle, booked the container and even reserved a space on a cargo ship.
(4) A dramatic shift in asylum policy in 2001 helped Howard turn around poor polling and win the November federal election, after he refused permission for the MV Tampa to enter Australian waters with its cargo of rescued asylum seekers.
(5) Its loss would be a major blow to Ukraine and would also allow the rebels to receive large cargo planes with supplies in addition to truck convoys from Russia .
(6) The organisation had never however gained access to the "Cargo Building", the most notorious detention centre, in Srinagar.
(7) Field studies of human flora carried out in remote environments are often compromised by problems associated with media, equipment or cargo limitations.
(8) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Workers unload a cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid from Saudi Arabia at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.
(10) The Los Angeles police department, California highway patrol, firefighters and the coastguard conducted a search, while cargo vessels slowed during their passage through the main channel so as to minimise disturbance.
(11) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
(12) When a boat’s hull was packed with human cargo, it would depart southward to Thailand or Malaysia.
(13) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
(14) Authorities were also questioning cargo workers at the airport and employees of the local shipping firms contracted to work with commercial logistics companies.
(15) Two US marine C-130 cargo planes arrived in Tacloban, the coastal city where virtually every building was destroyed by the typhoon's huge storm surge, and were unloading emergency items on Monday evening – the first wave of an aid operation taking in dozens of countries and agencies.
(16) It is sending 329 tonnes of medical and relief cargo.
(17) Go further back, and the UK's proud claim to be "a trading nation" was established with consignments of the bloodstained crops of cotton and sugar, to say nothing of the human cargo that went with them.
(18) Qatar has negotiated new cargo handling arrangements in the Omani ports of Sohar and Salalah, avoiding the need for goods to stop in the UAE.
(19) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
(20) We are working out different options for a water landing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Progress cargo vessel docked at the International Space Station in January 2014.
Rummager
Definition:
(n.) One who rummages.
(n.) A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager, and romager.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(2) The song ended on an emotional warble, then Nicolas rummaged in a drawer and handed me a small circle of cloth.
(3) I was on my way to one of those exclusive parties when I saw Mom from the taxi window; she was on the sidewalk rummaging through the trash.
(4) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
(5) When he was at Heinemann in the 1980s, he was rummaging through unsolicited manuscripts and came across Roddy Doyle's The Commitments and the first chapter of Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent.
(6) I'd come into his flat and rummage around in his private mail.
(7) Rummage boxes, sensory gardens and music sessions are prominent examples of tools used in our programme to help residents recall thoughts and experiences of their lives prior to developing dementia.
(8) You’ve gone through the most physically demanding and painful hours of your life, then when you finally get to hold your baby, your sense of euphoria is knocked out of you and there are suddenly people quite literally rummaging inside your body.
(9) Umunna won over an audience of business leaders when he produced his late father’s IoD membership card, that he found after rummaging through a box kept by his mother.
(10) The Knowledge has rummaged furiously through its annals, but just can't beat that.
(11) We end our conversation with his party's rum assortment of allies in the European parliament , and another chance to rummage through more arcane rightwing parties that do their thing in Brussels: among them, Helsinki's own True Finns, and the United Poland party.
(12) Born the youngest of five children into a working-class family in Lambeth, south London, he had had his first brushes with the law as a teenager during the second world war, when he would rummage through bombed-out buildings and help himself to what he found.
(13) The story begins with his colonial childhood in Kenya and Nyasaland (now Malawi), and is full of dusty anecdotes of our young hero rummaging without a care in the great African outdoors.
(14) In the background, John Terry's camp succeeded in planting a series of stories and photos that portrayed him as a happy family man, taking his wife out to the theatre and showing her how to fish while the tabloids rummaged in Perroncel's family history – her parents' divorce, her father's suicide, her supposed lack of money as a child (implying a current obsession).
(15) For more classic knowledge, click here MORE VIOLENT TESTIMONIALS Last week , rummaging through the Knowledge archive, Wayne Ziants came across a question about trouble at testimonials and felt moved to remind us of the hi-jinks at Alan Cork's benefit match in Plough Lane on 16 May 1988.
(16) "We have entered a new world but, as the court today recognised, our old values still apply and limit the government's ability to rummage through the intimate details of our private lives," Shapiro said in a statement.
(17) I hastily write a response in the affirmative, then rummage through my desk for a sheet of stamps, grab my cap and coat, and drop the letter into the mailbox.
(18) I would go to the library, or get books at rummage sales.
(19) I rummage through my pockets for the 1.5 birr (5p) fare as passengers clamber on and off at regular intervals before we reach the Bole bridge bus terminal.
(20) Get your reporter to STOP rummaging thru belongings at #mH17 crash site.