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Cargo vs Collier - What's the difference?

cargo | collier |

As nouns the difference between cargo and collier

is that cargo is freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc while collier is a person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining coal or making charcoal) or in its transporting or commerce.

cargo

English

Noun

  • Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
  • * 1806 , James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
    • "…her whole and entire cargo'; and, also, all such other ' cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"
  • * 1913 , Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence ,
    • "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos ."
  • (Papua New Guinea ) Western material goods.
  • * 1995 , Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji , Duke University Press, page xi
    • "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo " cult)."

    Derived terms

    * cargo cult *

    collier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining coal or making charcoal) or in its transporting or commerce.
  • * 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 224.
    • For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.
  • (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal
  • A nickname used by the traveller community, referring to a non-traveller

    • Related terms

    * colliery

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