supercargo

IPA: supɝkˈɑrgoʊ

An officer on board a merchant ship who has charge of the cargo and its turnover (or the senior of two if one has two, the other being the subcargo; usually historical, since nowadays a person with such a job would remain on shore).

Examples of "supercargo" in Sentences

The captain, the agent, and the supercargo were ashore in the two boats.
A supercargo is a position in the ship's crew analogous to the ship's clerk.
"Both he and that fat beast of a supercargo are a pair of sneaks, and they hate you like poison.
A "supercargo" was an officer of a merchant ship who was entrusted with the sale of the cargo and other commercial transactions.
The supercargo was the brother of the Mr. S----, whose death in Jamaica the reader will not have forgotten, and he gave me a hearty welcome.
There was some subterfuge about our position on board -- I forget the particulars now -- I was called the supercargo and Pollack was the steward.
Myself - skipper Castor - 1st officer & pilot Meade - 2nd officer & asst. cook Hazel - chief engineer Pollux - asst.eng. & relief pilot Edith - ship's surgeon & cook Buster - 'supercargo'
Portuguese intendant, who travelled with us as a kind of supercargo; but the villain only grinned and said something about the Junta and the galleys for life, so I did not recur to it afterwards.
Tako Kakuta and Ras Tschubai-Counting Pucky, these three make up the teleport team Wuriu Sengu-The mutant tele-spy sees through it all John Marshall-Chief of the Mutant Corps Lt. Jenner, Dr. Ranault and Dr. Sorowski-Technical 'supercargo' for the teleport team Lt. Groder-Special agent of Solar Intelligence Maj.