cargo ship

Questions about cargo ship

What does cargo ship mean?

cargo ship means "a ship designed to carry cargo".

What is another word for cargo ship?

Close synonyms include cargo vessel. 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 ship a common word?

cargo ship 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.