Supercargo Definition

so͝opər-kärgō
supercargoes, supercargos
noun
An officer on a merchant ship who has charge of the cargo and the business dealings of the voyage.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Supercargo

Noun

Singular:
supercargo
Plural:
supercargoes, supercargos

Origin of Supercargo

  • Alteration (influenced by super–) of supracargo alteration (influenced by supra–) of Spanish sobrecargo sobre- over (from Latin super- super–) cargo cargo cargo

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Supercargo Sentence Examples

  • As clerk (1795) and then as supercargo (1796, 1798, 1799) he made four long voyages; and, being an excellent navigator, he afterwards (1802) commanded a vessel, instructing his crews in lunar and other observations.

  • Placed at the age of fifteen in a counting-house at Bremen, he was impelled by his desire to obtain a situation as supercargo on a foreign voyage to study navigation, mathematics and finally astronomy.

  • The first English navigator to sight the Australian continent was William Dampier, who made a visit to these shores in 1688, as supercargo of the " Cygnet," a trader whose crew had turned buccaneers.

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