单词 | supercargo |
释义 | supercargon. Now historical. 1. A representative of the ship's owner on board a merchant ship, responsible for overseeing the cargo and its sale. Formerly also: †an agent who superintended a company's business abroad (obsolete). Cf. earlier supracargo n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > for ships > supercargo merchant1594 supracargo1653 supercargo1667 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > supercargo cape-merchant1613 supercargo1667 escrivan1726 society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] broker1377 factor1432 entermeter1440 broggerc1460 chapman1570 institor1657 mackeler1682 agent1707 commission man1733 agenting1751 supercargo1782 commission agent1798 commission merchant1798 curbstone broker1848 managing agent1969 1667 Third Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 12 Clifford in the Caracter appears, Of Super Cargo [1677 Second Advice Sapra Cargo] to our Fleet. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xviii. 511 One Mr. Moody, who was Supercargo of the Ship. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 44 The Question was, whether I would go their Super-Cargo in the Ship to manage the Trading Part upon the Coast of Guinea? 1732 H. Fielding Lottery ii. 14 A Man of the first Quality, and one of the best Estates in the Kingdom: Why, he's as rich as a Supercargo. 1782 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 48 The Directors of the East India Company, to give proper orders to their factors and super-cargoes in China, to procure some of the best seed that can be obtained. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Hist. India 32/2 With the port of Rangoon..they carried on a very considerable trade, and had supercargoes stationed there. 1829 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. II. 305 About the same period, we find that Richard le Furbur, a trader of the inland town of Roxburgh, had sent factors or supercargoes to manage his business in foreign countries. a1898 W. E. Gladstone Memoir in J. Morley Life Gladstone (1903) I. i. i. 9 My father..went in one of these ships at a very early age as a supercargo. 1919 W. S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence lviii. 320 The captain and the supercargo lolled in deck-chairs. 2002 Hist. Scotl. May 29/2 Letters such as this from a supercargo in Rotterdam..were regularly sent across Europe. 2. In extended use. A superintendent, agent, go-between. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > superintendent architector1461 earl1483 overlookera1513 superior1554 superintender1573 superintendent1603 surintendent1645 epistates1651 intendant1652 referee1705 supercargo1713 surveillant1819 super1849 supe1908 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > intercession or influence on someone's behalf > [noun] > one who forespeakerc1175 sequesterc1380 meanc1384 meanera1387 mediatorc1410 advocatec1450 intercessor1482 advowrer1508 attorney1537 paranympha1538 paraclete?1548 advocator1588 intercedera1656 intercedenta1661 supercargo1713 citizen advocate1958 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 30 June 1/1 Mr. Purville was Supercargo to the great Hamper, in which were the following Goods. 1838 W. G. Clark May in Literary Remains (1844) 243 To those who take every event in their lives as a matter of ‘special providence’; who make a shop-keeper and supercargo of Omnipotence. 1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xx. 148 Thurso carries a passenger nobody sees but himself, a kind of divine supercargo who relays messages from some more abstract deity. Derivatives superˈcargoship n. the position or occupation of supercargo; a post as supercargo. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > supercargo > office of supercargoship1761 1761 J. Wright Amer. Negotiator Advt. That very useful Branch of Merchants Accounts relating to Factorages, and Supercargoships. 1809 P. Irving in W. Irving's Life & Lett. (1864) I. 222 I am averse to any supercargoship, or anything that may bear you to distant or unfriendly climates. 1931 Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. 39 112 He was..contemplating settling..when Baird and Walker offered him a supercargoship in Virginia for two years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1667 |
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