supercargo
📖 Definitions
noun
1. An officer on a merchant ship who is in charge of the cargo.
2. A superintendent or an agent.
💬 Usage Examples
“Thurso carries a passenger nobody sees but himself, a kind of divine supercargo who relays messages from some more abstract deity.” Barry Unsworth; Sacred Hunger; Hamish Hamilton; 1992. “Robert Campbell of the University of Rhode Island, one of Healey’s supercargo of scientists, outlined the details.” Awakening; The Economist (London, UK); Feb 14, 2015.