Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An officer on a merchant ship who has charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person in a merchant ship whose business is to manage the sales and superintend all the commercial concerns of the voyage.
Wiktionary
- n. An officer on board a merchant ship who has charge of the cargo.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase
Etymologies
- Alteration (influenced by super-) of supracargo, alteration (influenced by supra-) of Spanish sobrecargo : sobre-, over (from Latin super-; see super-) + cargo, cargo; see cargo. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The supercargo was the brother of the Mr. S----, whose death in Jamaica the reader will not have forgotten, and he gave me a hearty welcome.”
“The captain, the agent, and the supercargo were ashore in the two boats.”
“There was some subterfuge about our position on board -- I forget the particulars now -- I was called the supercargo and Pollack was the steward.”
“A supercargo is a position in the ship's crew analogous to the ship's clerk.”
James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat
“Myself - skipper Castor - 1st officer & pilot Meade - 2nd officer & asst. cook Hazel - chief engineer Pollux - asst.eng. & relief pilot Edith - ship's surgeon & cook Buster - 'supercargo”
“A "supercargo" was an officer of a merchant ship who was entrusted with the sale of the cargo and other commercial transactions.”
“Portuguese intendant, who travelled with us as a kind of supercargo; but the villain only grinned and said something about the Junta and the galleys for life, so I did not recur to it afterwards.”
“Both he and that fat beast of a supercargo are a pair of sneaks, and they hate you like poison.”
“Tako Kakuta and Ras Tschubai-Counting Pucky, these three make up the teleport team Wuriu Sengu-The mutant tele-spy sees through it all John Marshall-Chief of the Mutant Corps Lt. Jenner, Dr. Ranault and Dr. Sorowski-Technical 'supercargo' for the teleport team Lt. Groder-Special agent of Solar Intelligence Maj.”
“Rather than simply sail around the world, or travel as supercargo to Calcutta and backtwo options that were open to himhe signed on as”
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