supercargo

1. 1.

   an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase

   Broaderofficer

Other forms of supercargo

plural

supercargoes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about supercargo

What does supercargo mean?

supercargo means "an officer on a merchant ship in charge of the cargo and its sale and purchase".

How many syllables are in supercargo?

supercargo has 4 syllables: su-per-car-go. The stress falls on "per".

Is supercargo a common word?

supercargo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.