SUPERCARGO (supercargoes)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: supercargoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does supercargo mean? 

• SUPERCARGO (noun)
  The noun SUPERCARGO has 1 sense:

1. an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase

  Familiarity information: SUPERCARGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERCARGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("supercargo" is a kind of...):

officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)

 Context examples 

As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and supercargo.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We've a little stranger here—he! he! A noo boarder and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut as a fiddle; slep' like a supercargo, he did, right alongside of John—stem to stem we was, all night.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)