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Definition: Supercargo |
SupercargoNoun1. An officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "supercargo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
Etymology: Supercargo \Su`per*car"go\, noun. [Super- cargo: compare to Spanish sobrecargo. Compare to Surcharge.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Plans and coordinates loading and unloading of ships' cargo and prepares reports on type, amount, and condition of cargo to protect company from claims for damage or shortage: Examines cargo lists to determine types of cargo that can be loaded together. Prepares loading and stowage plan to ensure that weight of cargo is equally distributed in hatches. Informs shippers and supervisor of CARGO CHECKERS (water trans.) of loading time and point, and supervisors of STEVEDORES (water trans.) II of cargo to load and location of load. Prepares reports, such as tonnage carried, breakage, overages, and shortages. Acts as agent of shipowners in foreign ports. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Director | Intendant; overseer, overlooker; supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator; caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Supercargo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Supercargo" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "supercargo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përgjegjës i ngarkesës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | lodní dùstojník (mate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιστάτησ φορτίου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teherrakomány. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 上乗り . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うわのり. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | upercargosay sobrecarga (encumbrance, overburden, overcharge, overfreight, overweight). (various references) суперкарго (supercargos). (various references) nadzornik tereta. (various references) sobrecargo. (various references) เจ้าหน้าที่เรือพา"ิชย์ที่"ูแลการขนส่งสินค้า. (various references) yük memuru, armatör vekili. (various references) суперекарго. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "supercargo": supercargoes, supercargos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "supercargo" (pronounced 'Su`per*car"go'): AErugo, Amigo, Arango, Argo, Bongo, Botargo, Bungo, Caligo, Camerlingo, Cargo, Cerago, Chimango, Colugo, Contango, Cundurango, Dago, Ferrugo, Fidalgo, flamingo, galago, Ginkgo, gringo, Hidalgo, imago, impetigo, intertrigo, jingo, lanugo, Largo, lentigo, lingo, lumbago, mango, Melligo, Non-ego, Pichiciago, plumbago, Pongo, Potargo, Prurigo, Rubigo, sago, Sargo, Sego, Serpigo, Solidago, sorgo, Squintifego, Stingo, Subimago. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-o-p-r-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: carouser, courages, groupers, procures, regroups, scourger, supercar. | |
-3 letters: acerous, aerugos, apercus, arguers, arouser, cargoes, carouse, carpers, coarser, corsage, cougars, courage, courser, croupes, curares, grasper, grocers, gropers, grouper, grouser, parures, pourers, procure, purgers, recoups, regroup, repours, scarper, scauper, scourer, scourge, scraper, scrouge, socager, sparger, sprucer, uprears, uproars. | |
-4 letters: aerugo, apercu, arguer, argues, arouse, augers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-o-p-r-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: supercargos. | |
+2 letters: supercargoes, superorganic. | |
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