supracargo

== English == === Etymology === 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)). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsuːpɹəˌkɑːɡəʊ/, /ˌsuːpɹəˈkɑːɡəʊ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsupɹəˌkɑɹɡoʊ/, /ˌsupɹəˈkɑɹɡoʊ/ Rhymes: (one pronunciation) -ɑːɡəʊ Hyphenation: su‧pra‧car‧go === Noun === supracargo (plural supracargos or supracargoes) (nautical) (historical) 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. Synonym: supercargo (obsolete) An agent or representative of a company in charge of its overseas business. ==== Usage notes ==== Noun sense 1 (“officer on board a merchant ship in charge of cargo and its sale”) is historical since nowadays a person with such a job would remain on shore. ==== Derived terms ==== supercargo ==== Translations ==== === Notes === === References === === Further reading === supercargo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia