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(-en, -e): Som en mellemting mellem en supercargo og en skriver er det engelske ord cap-merchant defineret som:
"Cap-merchant, in a trading ship, is the same officer, who is called purser in a man of war. The French call him writer (ecrivain) he is appointed by the merchants to whom the ship belongs, to take care that nothing be embezzled, nor squandered away...
In such ships, whose cargo is not considerable enough to bear the expence of a cap-merchant, the master himself, or the mate, if thereto requested by the master, performs the office of a cap-merchant
."
cap-merchant.
[TAC-I p.447]
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