Shipping Definition

shĭpĭng
noun
The act or business of sending or transporting goods.
Webster's New World
Ships, esp. commercial ships, collectively, as those belonging to a certain nation or using a certain port.
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Passage or transport on a ship.

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The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.
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Navigation.
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verb

Present participle of ship.

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Other Word Forms of Shipping

Noun

Singular:
shipping
Plural:
shippings

Origin of Shipping

  • From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from Middle English schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate"), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship"), equivalent to ship +"Ž -ing.

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  • From ship +"Ž -ing.

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Shipping Sentence Examples

  • Maybe he was shipping drugs inside sculptures.

  • They gave the kingdom a connexion of its own with the Red Sea and its shipping; and they enabled the Franks to 2 Pisa naturally connected itself with Antioch, because Antioch was hostile to Constantinople, and Pisa cherished the same hostility, since Alexius I.

  • Escanaba, on Little Bay de Noc (Noquette), in the northern part of the lake, is a natural harbour and a large iron shipping port.

  • Extensive deposits, which are being developed successfully, occur in Tasmania, it being estimated that there are, within easy shipping facilities, 17,000,000 tons of ore.

  • The city is the largest in British Columbia, and is the chief Canadian shipping port for Japan, China, Australia and the islands at which the C.P.R.

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Words Starting With

SSHSHI

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GNGING

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