shipment

shipment
Synonyms and related words:
air express, airfreight, airlift, asportation, baggage, bearing, cargo, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, consignment, conveyance, drayage, expressage, ferriage, freight, freightage, goods, haulage, hauling, impedimenta, lading, lighterage, load, luggage, lugging, pack, packing, payload, portage, porterage, railway express, shipping, telpherage, toting, transport, transportation, transshipment, truckage, waft, waftage, wagonage

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  • shipment — ship‧ment [ˈʆɪpmənt] noun TRANSPORT 1. [countable] a load of goods sent by sea, road, train, or air: shipment of • A shipment of 1700 cars left for Italy. • The railroad company s coal shipments rose 15%. 2 …   Financial and business terms

  • Shipment — Ship ment, n. 1. The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is shipped. [1913 Webster] The question is, whether the share of M. in …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shipment — index cargo, carriage, consignment, delivery, freight Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • shipment — (n.) 1802, act of shipping; 1861, that which is shipped; see SHIP (Cf. ship) (v.) + MENT (Cf. ment) …   Etymology dictionary

  • shipment — ► NOUN 1) the action of shipping goods. 2) a consignment of goods shipped …   English terms dictionary

  • shipment — [ship′mənt] n. 1. the shipping or transporting of goods 2. goods shipped or consigned …   English World dictionary

  • shipment — 01. We ve just received a new [shipment] of summer wear, so all our spring fashions are on sale at half price. 02. The last [shipment] of convicts from Britain arrived in Australia in 1868. 03. The bike store has just received a big [shipment] of …   Grammatical examples in English

  • shipment — noun 1 quantity of goods sent from one place to another ADJECTIVE ▪ aid, arms, drug, food, fuel, oil, weapons, etc. ▪ cargo (esp. AmE …   Collocations dictionary

  • shipment — ship|ment [ˈʃıpmənt] n [U and C] a load of goods sent by sea, road, or air, or the act of sending them shipment of ▪ a shipment of grain arms/oil/drug etc shipment ▪ an illegal arms shipment ▪ The goods are ready for shipment …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • shipment */ — UK [ˈʃɪpmənt] / US noun Word forms shipment : singular shipment plural shipments 1) [countable] an amount of goods carried on a ship, plane, train, or truck illegal drug shipments shipment of: The spider was found in a shipment of bananas. 2)… …   English dictionary

  • shipment — [[t]ʃɪ̱pmənt[/t]] shipments 1) N COUNT: usu N n, N of n A shipment is an amount of a particular kind of cargo that is sent to another country on a ship, train, aeroplane, or other vehicle. After that, food shipments to the port could begin in a… …   English dictionary

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