cargo vessel

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   a ship designed to carry cargo

   Synonymscargo ship

   Broadership

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   Partsfreeboard deck

Questions about cargo vessel

What does cargo vessel mean?

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

What is another word for cargo vessel?

Close synonyms include cargo ship. 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 vessel a common word?

cargo vessel 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.