noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cargo plane (= for carrying goods )
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cargo planes carrying emergency supplies for victims of the earthquake
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
general
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Builders' Merchants. General cargo continued to flow through the port but there was a gradual decline in dock activity.
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A: Air couriers act as delivery persons for packages too urgent or sensitive to fly as general cargo .
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Some are general cargo boats, often carrying goods in containers.
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Other services include general cargo handling, marine fuel product storage and wholesale electrical supplies.
human
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For six weeks a jury has heard the callousness with which the lorry driver treated his human cargo .
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This is human cargo land-people nobody wants, trying to get somewhere.
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Then they would unload their human cargo and speed back, using a different route, to repeat the process.
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Boats raced to the ship and ferried its human cargo toland.
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He passed through Istanbul in two months-more quickly than most of the city's human cargo .
large
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The firm represents a large number of cargo shipping lines.
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More people are looking for a versatile vehicle, one that would have towing capacity and larger cargo capacity.
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Steamers could carry larger volumes of cargo than sailing vessels and do it more frequently and regularly.
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Points to look for Extension top Allows larger cargoes of light materials like leaves, to be transported with much less spillage.
■ NOUN
air
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Today, the airport handles 460 flights, 84,000 passengers and 5,600 tonnes of air cargo each day.
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A series of area road improvements could help Brown Field take flight as an air cargo hub.
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Quite simply, the use of fast, reliable air cargo services adds value to any product.
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Longer runway preferred How would an air cargo hub affect those developments?
bay
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Hoffman said the end of the tether draped in the cargo bay was discolored, perhaps charred by burning.
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There were cargo bays and airlocks situated at random among the folds and spirals, but all of them remained closed.
boat
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The boats averaged four to six miles an hour, and had right of way over cargo boats on the canal.
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Some are general cargo boats , often carrying goods in containers.
bulk
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After coal, building materials figured importantly among bulk cargoes .
deck
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Underneath some shabby canvas tarps on the cargo deck were stacked a dozen bulky mattresses and twenty thick pine boards.
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Riker threw me the box and walked back to sit on the edge of the cargo deck .
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He slammed the butt of the weapon on my cargo deck and the thing went off.
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The scurrying grunts tossed a foot-filled boot on to the cargo deck .
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We landed about a hundred feet from the headquarters ten, sinking into the grass up to the cargo deck .
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Stacked on the cargo deck , they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.
door
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An expert on air accidents believes that the aircraft was de-stabilised after opening its cargo door for a low-level drop.
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Additional modifications to the cargo door locking and pressurisation systems are being considered as part of a continued investigation effort.
flight
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Commercial and cargo flights would be allowed as long as they were inspected at their departure points.
hold
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She was in the cargo hold , standing on the ribbed floor of the shuttle next to the loading hatch.
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And a third beam was forced into the cargo hold .
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Demyonov had gone home last week in an elaborate casket dark inside the cargo hold of a Tupolev airliner.
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That would force airline workers to retrieve that travelers' bag from the cargo hold .
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Chests of tea and bales of wool can be found in the lower cargo hold .
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There were dull thuds from the cargo hold .
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If the wiring were overheating, it could have caused oxygen-generating canisters in the cargo hold to explode, he said.
plane
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The operation would use 11 military cargo planes and would eventually cost over US$200,000,000.
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They suggest an advanced design of the C.141 Starlifter cargo plane .
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These cargo planes are the modern equivalents of the tramp steamer.
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That cargo plane of yours has a range of three thousand, six hundred sea miles.
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The paratroops, known as Task Force Red, dropped in two waves from C-141 cargo planes .
ship
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Q: I have heard that you can reach many places in the world as passengers on cargo ships .
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During a routine docking maneuver to resupply, we collided with a cargo ship .
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And Weider Travel, of Felixstowe, has offered them a place on the cargo ship Sexton.
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Lying in the anchorage were two light cruisers, a number of destroyers, and about ten cargo ships .
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The only retail travel agency in Britain specialising in passenger journeys on board cargo ships .
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Tankers and cargo ships make easy targets.
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A river passenger boat crashed into a cargo ship and sank on the Amazon on March 7 after leaving Iquitos.
space
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It offers 118 cubic feet of cargo space , or five times the trunk space of a Buick Regal.
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Then Hay wrestled a nylon bag crammed with playthings from the cargo space behind the third passenger seat.
vessel
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Since the sacrifice of a single one of these cargo vessels caused terrible losses, merchants yearned to avoid the inevitable.
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No warships were present, but considerable damage was inflicted on cargo vessels , with which the harbor was jammed.
■ VERB
carry
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Charterers have recently shown growing concern about the standards of maintenance of ships carrying their cargoes .
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The train cars carrying cargo trucks are not sealed.
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Steel was stronger so boats could be built with thinner plates, making them lighter and so able to carry more cargo .
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The sperm carries just a nucleus cargo , a mitochondrial engine, and a flagellum propeller.
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You can't fault Ayckbourn's production but, for once, his comic vessel has problems carrying such emotionally heavy cargo .
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For Sealink Ferries claimed it was too dangerous to carry as cargo .
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She was built to carry dry cargo such as fruit and groceries in crates, aluminium or copper.
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For example a ship called the Felicia left Philadelphia in August 1986 carrying a cargo of incinerator ash containing harmful metal residues.
load
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During the next four weeks we steamed from one port to another, unloading and loading a variety of cargoes .
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The berths were practically dry at low water and vessels lay aground on the mud bottom whilst loading and discharging their cargoes .
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I moved about uncomfortably, listening to the thumps on the roof as they loaded up the cargo .
unload
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Then they would unload their human cargo and speed back, using a different route, to repeat the process.
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Patients could watch trains load and unload cargo from the ships docked at the waterfront.
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There they found two boats tied up alongside the wharf, waiting to unload their cargo of dolphin corpses.
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The stretcher bearers ran out to unload the cargo .
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On the other hand, he could find he had been selected to unload a valuable cargo such as palm kernels.
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It became the head of navigation where they unloaded their cargoes .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The ship was carrying a cargo of oil-drilling equipment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By the March meeting, negotiators will have assessed new cargo preparation costs and additional experiment preparation expenses.
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During 1991, Bontang exported 197 contracted standard cargoes.
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He said it contained his own private cargo and that he wanted to unload it himself.
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Hoffman said the end of the tether draped in the cargo bay was discolored, perhaps charred by burning.
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In autumn and winter the cargoes were damsons, tomatoes, marrows, cucumbers, apples, and pears.
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Steel was stronger so boats could be built with thinner plates, making them lighter and so able to carry more cargo .
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The Department of Transportation classifies the oxygen generators as hazardous materials when carried as company material in cargo compartments.
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These so-called cargo cults became bizarre, microcosmic societies that survived almost entirely on hopes and dreams that might never be realized.