supercargoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsuːpəˌkɑːɡəʊ/, (now まれに) /ˈsjuːpə-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsupɚˌkɑɡoʊ/

名詞

supercargo (複数形 supercargos または supercargoes)

1. An officer on board a merchant ship who has charge of the cargo and its turnover (または 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).
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 58”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers by arrangement with George H. Doran Company, OCLC 365836:

     [...] and at night, when the boat sailed along easily before a light breeze, and the sailors were gathered on the upper deck, while the captain and the supercargo lolled in deck-chairs, smoking their pipes [...]