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Definition of Supercargo
1. Noun. An officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase.
Definition of Supercargo
1. n. An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is to manage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of the voyage.
Definition of Supercargo
1. Noun. An officer on board a merchant ship who has charge of the cargo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Supercargo
1. [n -GOS or -GOES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supercargo
Literary usage of Supercargo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"As the supercargo's authority properly concerns the cargo, it is ordinarily
dormant during the voyage, and is called into exercise by arrival at the foreign ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1862)
"The powers and duties of a supercargo are not very specifically regulated by ...
The supercargo is simply an agent, and is limited like other agents to the ..."
3. A Manual of the Law Relating to Shipping and Admiralty as Determined by the by Robert Desty (1879)
"Authority as supercargo. — The master, in case of necessity, is clothed with the
authority of supercargo, when he is bound to act to the best interests of ..."
4. A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, from the by Benjamin Trumbull (1818)
"Wh»n it was called for by the supercargo, a great proportion of it could not be
... Don Joseph Miguel, the supercargo, refuses to sail, without the whole of ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"As the supercargo's authority properly concerns the cargo, it is ordinarily
dormant during the voy- asre, and is called into exercise by arrival at the ..."
6. Annual Report of the United States Shipping Board by United States Shipping Board (1921)
"If the cargo had been loading slowly, the supercargo instituted an ... supercargo
Section. This section was vested with the supervision and general control ..."
7. Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts: Being the Letters of Kiliaen Van by New York State Library, Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer, Nicolaas de Roever, Susan De Lancey Van Rennselaer Strong (1908)
"He is also hereby authorized to act as supercargo 41 of the vessel which shall
sail up and down the river for the said colony and no one is to ship anything ..."
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