cargo hold

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   the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo

   Synonymscargo areacargo deckholdstorage area

   Broaderenclosure

   Part ofship

Questions about cargo hold

What does cargo hold mean?

cargo hold means "the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo".

What is another word for cargo hold?

Close synonyms include cargo area, cargo deck, hold, storage area. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cargo hold a common word?

cargo hold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.