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
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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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