Thesaurus results for CARGO

cargo

noun

ˈkär-(ˌ)gō

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 Blue Origin, founded in 2000, is the brainchild of Amazon CEO Bezos who envisions the company as a regular provider of space transport for both cargo and crew and a major player in making humanity both an on-world and off-world species, with millions of people eventually living in space. —

Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 17 Jan. 2025 An unknown powder was spread around the trailer to prevent the smell of human cargo from being detected by patrol dogs at border inspection stations. —

Fox News, 17 Jan. 2025 New Glenn has about the same carrying capacity as SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, and is meant to shuttle cargo into space on the reusable launch platform. —

Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2025 SpaceX’s Falcon rockets propelled cargo to orbit 133 times in 2024, with one failure, the vast majority of the 145 launches attempted in the U.S. last year and more than half of the 263 worldwide, according to space activity tracker Jonathan McDowell. —

Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for cargo

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Noun

The license is for the launch of the company's RFA One rocket, which has an advertised payload of 1.3 metric tons to low-Earth orbit.

— Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
The ultimate payload is account takeover through credential theft.

— Davey Winder, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025