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| Main Entry: | cargo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baggage; something to be delivered |
| Synonyms: | burden, consignment, contents, freight, goods, haul, lading, load, merchandise, payload, shipment, shipload, tonnage, ware |
| Main Entry: | contents |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elements of larger object |
| Synonyms: | capacity, cargo, connotation, details, essence, filling, freight, gist, guts, implication, innards, inside, lading, load, meaning, nub, packing, shipment, significance, size, space, stuffing, subject matter, substance, sum, text, volume, chapters, constituents, divisions, furnishing, ingredients, subjects, themes, topics |
| Main Entry: | flotsam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | floating debris |
| Synonyms: | cargo, junk, odds and ends, wreckage, castoffs, jetsam, sea-drift |
| Notes: | flotsam are goods floating on the sea (French floter) and jetsam are things thrown into the sea (short for jettison, from French jeter) |
| Main Entry: | haul |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something obtained or moved |
| Synonyms: | booty, burden, cargo, catch, find, freight, gain, harvest, lading, load, loot*, payload*, spoils, yield, takings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pile, accumulation |
| Synonyms: | abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, deposit, fullness, gathering, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, much, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, total, volume, whole, a lot, amassment, congeries, gobs, great deal, million, scad, ton, trillion |
| Antonyms: | bit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shipment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consignment |
| Synonyms: | cargo, freight, goods, haul, load, lot, package, parcel, purchase |
| Main Entry: | arrival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that makes it to a destination |
| Synonyms: | addition, caller, cargo, delegate, delivery, entrant, envoy, freight, guest, mail, newcomer, package, parcel, passenger, representative, shipment, tourist, traveler, visitor, arriver, comer, conferee, visitant |
| Main Entry: | goods |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | merchandise |
| Synonyms: | bolt, cargo, fabric, freight, line, load, stock, stuff, textile, wares, commodities, materials, seconds, vendibles |
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