SUPERCARGO
\sˈuːpəkˌɑːɡə͡ʊ], \sˈuːpəkˌɑːɡəʊ], \s_ˈuː_p_ə_k_ˌɑː_ɡ_əʊ]\
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An officer or person in a merchant-ship placed over the cargo and superintending all the commercial transactions of the voyage.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. An officer in the East India Company's vessels, or in merchant ships, having power to sell the cargo at the port to which the ship was bound, or to carry it to other ports, and to purchase or procure fresh cargo for the homeward voyage -the office of supercargo is now abolished.
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).