Noun

(uncountable) relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another

(uncountable) forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.

(uncountable) A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion

(countable) Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.

A blessing, something to be thankful for.

(phrasal) Subjugation, power.

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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)."