单词 | ship's husband |
释义 | > as lemmasship's husband b. spec. An agent authorized by a ship's owners to supervise the business of the ship while in port, esp. to attend to her stores, equipment, and repairs, and see that the ship is in all respects well found. Now chiefly in ship's husband. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > for ships husband1674 ship-agent1813 ship-broker1816 shipping-agent1843 shipping-broker1861 1674 in E. E. Rich Minutes Hudson's Bay Company (1942) 86 Mr. Irelande bee ordred by the husbande to make nor prepare any more gunns. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Husband of a Ship, a Person whose Office it is to see a Ship's Cargoe entered, landed, laid up in Warehouses, &c. for the Merchants. 1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade Husband of a ship, or the ship's husband. 1774 G. Colman Man of Business iii. 32 The ship's husband, desires to speak with him. 1804 C. Abbott Treat. Law Relative to Merchant Ships i. iii. 85 The husband had after his appointment acquired an interest in the ship by purchasing a part of the share..but..he had made the disbursements, and managed the concern, not in the character of a part-owner but of an agent. 1839 36 Years Seafaring Life 44 One of the brothers, who acted the part of working partner, or as it was called ship's husband. 1879 Law Rep.: Exchequer Div. 4 22 A ship's husband has the authority of the ship's owners to procure a charterparty, and to make contracts for their benefit. 1919 Times 22 Oct. 5 Mr. Neilson contended that there was no implied duty or authority in a ship's husband to insure. 1987 W. Golding Close Quarters x. 136 I am the ship's husband... I am responsible for more things than you can imagine. 2012 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 19 Apr. 7 During his evidence Mr Yeol said the ‘ship's husband’, or agent on behalf of Sajo Oyang, was Lyttelton firm Fisheries Consultancy (FishCon). ship's husband ship's cousin n. apparently humorously modelled on ship's husband. ΚΠ 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast viii. 64 However useful and active you may be, you are but a mongrel,—and sort of afterguard and ‘ship's cousin’. ship's husband ship's husband n. (see husband n. 5b). < as lemmas |
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