Noun

1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
   • 1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson

     "…her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"

   • 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence,

     "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."

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)."