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单词 supercargo
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supercargon.

Brit. /ˈsuːpəˌkɑːɡəʊ/, /ˈsjuːpəˌkɑːɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈsupərˌkɑrɡoʊ/
Forms: 1600s supercargoe, 1600s– supercargo.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: supracargo n.
Etymology: Alteration of supracargo n. after words in super- prefix.
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).
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