单词 | supracargo |
释义 | supracargon. Now historical. = supercargo n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > agent or broker > [noun] > for ships > supercargo merchant1594 supracargo1653 supercargo1667 1653 J. Collins Introd. Merchants Accts. (title page) A question of a merchant, adventuring a stock or cargazoon with the purser or sopracargo of a ship. 1667 Second Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 11 Though Clifford in the Character appears, Of Sapra Cargo to our Fleet and theirs. 1674 J. Collins Introd. Merchants Accts. sig. E3 Journall of the Sopracargos Accounts. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 230 What Business had I to..turn Supra-Cargo to Guinea, to fetch Negroes? 1785 Crit. Rev. Jan. 45 If the Chinese find that the English supra-cargoes will buy such tea, they will certainly take care that no large investment should ever be completed without it. 1813 W. Milburn Oriental Commerce II. 533 The Company's instructions to the supracargoes of their ships are very particular as to the mode of package and stowage. a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 589/1 The black [teas],..or boheas, [are brought] from Fŏ-kyen, called the Bohea country by the Supra-cargoes at Canton. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. vi. 321 The supracargoes..at last counselled acquiescence. 1926 Sc. Hist. Rev. 24 62 His defiant opposition was not the lightest burden that the wearied supracargoes had to bear. 2008 H. Bedford-Jones Pirates' Gold iii. 32 We were lying at Lisbon, and a supra-cargo there was tellin' me of such a man, bleedin' heart and all! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1653 |
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