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noun
An officer on board a merchant ship who is in charge of the cargo and its sale; also, if there are two of such officers, the senior one, the other being the subcargo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: supercargo
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An agent or representative of a company in charge of its overseas business.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From English supra- (prefix meaning ‘above, over’) + borrowed from Italian sopracargo, a dialectal form of sopraccarico, from sopra- (prefix meaning ‘above, over’) + carico (“cargo”) (from caricare (“to load; to take aboard”), from Late Latin carricāre, the present active infinitive of carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“cart, wagon; cartload”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”)) + -icō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
Across languages
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