Definition of the word shipping

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: the body of ships in one place or belonging to one port or country

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: the act or business of one that ships

Example Sentences



The fruit was ready for shipping.



They protected our shipping from submarines during wartime.

Recent Examples on the Web

Even though the cup was just restocked, note that there’s already a long waitlist so shipping may be delayed up to 30 days for select colors.


Emily Rochotte, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2023





Thankfully, Amazon offers fast shipping options for those of us who love to procrastinate.


Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 4 Apr. 2023





Fuel prices, and diesel in particular, threaten to weigh on consumers’ pocketbooks as well as the shipping networks that underpin global supply chains.


Evan Halper, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023





The days of tiny online orders shipping to customers in oversized boxes are a step closer to becoming a thing of the past.


Liz Young, wsj.com, 3 Apr. 2023





But the Group of Seven major democracies imposed a price cap of $60 per barrel on Russian shipments, enforced by bans on Western companies that dominate shipping or insurance.


David Mchugh, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023





Still, many steps taken by brands and retailers do not even begin to touch on the waste and pollution generated throughout supply chains, manufacturing and shipping, all huge problems for the industry to grapple with.


Aditi Sangal, CNN, 3 Apr. 2023





Earnings from shipping copper are set to rise to A$15 billion in 2027-28 from A$13 billion this year.


James Fernyhough, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2023





There is an $8 flat-rate shipping charge per order.


Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023



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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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    shipping

    shipping data

    отгрузочные данные

    shipping documents

    загрузочные документы

    shipping weight

    транспортировочная масса

    English-Russian aviation dictionary > shipping

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    shipping

    shipping [ˊʃɪpɪŋ]

    1) погру́зка, перево́зка гру́за

    2) (торго́вый) флот, суда́

    3) судохо́дство

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > shipping

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    shipping

    Персональный Сократ > shipping

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    shipping

    1. n суда, морской флот

    2. n общий тоннаж флота

    3. n погрузка, отправка, отгрузка; посадка

    4. n ком. поставка

    5. n судоходство

    6. n транспортировка; транспортное дело

    shipping crop — культура для дальних перевозок; экспортная культура

    Синонимический ряд:

    1. international trade (noun) commodity for sale abroad; export; exportation; foreign sale; foreign trade; international trade; international trading; overseas shipment; transoceanic cargo

    2. moving (verb) dislocating; disturbing; moving; removing; shifting; transferring

    3. sending (verb) addressing; consigning; dispatching; forwarding; remitting; routing; sending; transmitting

    English-Russian base dictionary > shipping

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    shipping

    [ˈʃɪpɪŋ]

    foreign shipping заграничные морские перевозки foreign shipping суда заграничного плавания international shipping международное судоходство mercantile shipping торговое судоходство merchant shipping торговый флот receipts from shipping поступления от перевозки грузов request shipping вчт. пересылка запроса shipping pres. p. от ship shipping морской флот shipping отгрузка, отправка shipping отгрузка shipping отправка shipping погрузка, перевозка груза shipping погрузка shipping суда shipping судоходство shipping тоннаж shipping (торговый) флот, суда shipping экспедиция

    English-Russian short dictionary > shipping

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    shipping

    1) погрузка

    2) судоходство

    3) флот

    4) тоннаж

    5) судовой

    6) морской

    Англо-русский морской словарь > shipping

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    shipping

    English-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > shipping

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    shipping

    Politics english-russian dictionary > shipping

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    shipping

    отгрузка ; погрузка ; транспортировка ; перевозка ; ? shipping agency ; ? shipping company ; ? shipping conference ; ? shipping day ; ? shipping documents ; ? shipping instructions ; ? shipping lines ; ? shipping order ; ? shipping season ; ? shipping to

    Англо-Русский словарь финансовых терминов > shipping

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    shipping

    сущ.

    1)

    трансп.

    морской флот; суда; судоходство

    See:

    2)

    а)

    трансп.

    погрузка, отгрузка, отправка

    See:

    б)

    трансп.

    транспортировка, перевозка

    See:

    * * *

    отправка: подготовка и отправка ипотечных документов инвестору, который покупает ипотеки на вторичном рынке.

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > shipping

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    Англо-русский технический словарь > shipping

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    shipping

    n

    1) отгрузка, погрузка, транспортировка, перевозка

    2) судоходство; мореплавание

    English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > shipping

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    shipping

    [ʹʃıpıŋ]

    1. 1) суда, морской флот

    2) общий тоннаж флота

    2. 1) погрузка, отправка, отгрузка; посадка

    shipping instructions — инструкции по отправке товара, погрузочные инструкции

    3. судоходство

    4. транспортировка (); транспортное дело

    НБАРС > shipping

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    shipping

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > shipping

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    shipping

    1. отгрузка

    2. отгружающийся

    3. транспортный

    container shipping — контейнеризация транспортных средств; контейнерные перевозки

    English-Russian dictionary of Information technology > shipping

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    shipping

    1. отгрузка; судоходство

    2. отгружаться

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > shipping

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    shipping

    English-Russian big medical dictionary > shipping

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    shipping

    отгрузка; перевозка; отправка; партия груза; наработка; выдача; производство; поставка

    English-Russian dictionary on nuclear energy > shipping

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    shipping

    1) погрузка; отгрузка; отправка

    2) судоходство; морские перевозки

    3) суда, морской торговый флот

    coastal shipping


    — coast shipping
    — local shipping
    — short-haul shipping

    Англо-русский юридический словарь > shipping

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    shipping

    1. транспортирование
    2. перевозка груза
    3. отгрузка

    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > shipping

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ship·ping

 (shĭp′ĭng)

n.

1.

a. The act or business of transporting goods.

b. An amount charged for transporting goods.

2. The body of ships belonging to one port, industry, or country, often referred to in aggregate tonnage.

3. Passage or transport on a ship.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

shipping

(ˈʃɪpɪŋ)

n

1. (Nautical Terms)

a. the business of transporting freight, esp by ship

b. (as modifier): a shipping magnate; shipping line.

2. (Nautical Terms)

a. ships collectively: there is a lot of shipping in the Channel.

b. the tonnage of a number of ships: shipping for this year exceeded that of last.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ship•ping

(ˈʃɪp ɪŋ)

n.

1. the act or business of a person or thing that ships goods.

2. a number of ships, esp. merchant ships, taken as a whole; tonnage.

[1300–50]

Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun 1. shipping - the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materialsshipping — the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

commerce, commercialism, mercantilism — transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business — the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; «computers are now widely used in business»

navigation — ship traffic; «the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts»

freight, freightage — transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

online, on-line — on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system; «on-line industries»

off-line — not on a regular route of a transportation system; «an off-line ticket office»

2. shipping - conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industryshipping — conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry

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Translations

السُّفُن

loďstvo

skibe

skipakostur

gemiler

Collins Spanish Dictionary — Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shipping

adj attr shipping businessReederei- or Schifffahrtsgeschäft nt; shipping costsFrachtkosten pl; shipping documentsVersanddokumente pl, → Warenbegleitpapiere pl


shipping

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shipping case

nVersandkiste for -behälter m

shipping company

nSchifffahrtsgesellschaft for -linie f, → Reederei f

shipping forecast

n (Met) → Seewetterbericht m

shipping lane

nSchifffahrtsstraße f

shipping office

n (= agent’s office)Büro nteiner Reedereivertretung; (= place where seamen get jobs)Heuerbüro nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ship

(ʃip) noun

1. a large boat. The ship sank and all the passengers and crew were drowned.

2. any of certain types of transport that fly. a spaceship.

verbpast tense, past participle shipped

to send or transport by ship. The books were shipped to Australia.

ˈshipment noun

1. a load of goods sent by sea. a shipment of wine from Portugal.

2. the sending of goods by sea.

ˈshipper noun

a person who arranges for goods to be shipped. a firm of shippers.

ˈshipping noun

ships taken as a whole. The harbour was full of shipping.

ˈship-broker noun

1. an agent whose job is to buy or sell ships.

2. an insurance agent for ships.

ˈshipbuilder noun

a person whose business is the construction of ships. a firm of shipbuilders.

ˈshipbuilding nounˈshipowner noun

a person or company that owns a ship or ships.

ˌshipˈshape adjective

in good order. She left everything shipshape in her room when she left.

ˈshipwreck noun

1. the accidental sinking or destruction of a ship. There were many shipwrecks on the rocky coast.

2. a wrecked ship. an old shipwreck on the shore.

verb

We were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa.

ˈshipyard noun

a place where ships are built or repaired.

ship water

(of a boat) to let water in over the side. The boat shipped water and nearly capsized.

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

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WordReference English-Russian Dictionary © 2023:

Главные переводы
английский русский
ship n (large boat) корабль м
    судно ср
  The ship with all the merchandise should arrive on January 24.
  Судно со всем товаром должно прибыть 24-го января.
ship⇒ vtr (send by courier) (груз, почту) отправлять, посылать несов
    отправить, послать сов
    перевозить несов
  We will ship the books tomorrow.
  Мы отправим книги завтра.

Collins Russian Dictionary 2nd Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2000, 1997:

shipping [ˈʃɪpɪŋ]
n (transport of cargo) перево́зка; (ships) судохо́дство

* is used to mark translations which have irregular inflections. The Russian-English side of the dictionary gives inflectional information.

ship [ʃɪp]
n кора́бль*m

vt (transport) перевози́ть*(перевезти́*perf) по мо́рю
(send) экспеди́ровать (impf/perf)
(water) забира́ть (забра́ть*perf)

on board ship на борту́ корабля́

* is used to mark translations which have irregular inflections. The Russian-English side of the dictionary gives inflectional information.

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c. 1300, «a ship,» from ship (n.). Meaning «act of sending (freight) by a ship, etc.» is from late 15c. As «ships generally or collectively» from 1590s.

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The function that performs the tasks for the outgoing shipment of parts, components, and products. It includes packaging, marking, weighing, and loading for shipment.

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transportation of goods, usually by large boat.

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The delivery of materials, equipment, or supplies ordered from a publisher, jobber, dealer, or supplier to a library by post or some other method. Also refers to the charge for delivery, usually inclu [..]

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The transportation of goods or people across water.

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The department or process responsible for arranging the physical transportation of product and/or making certain that product is loaded on the correct carrier, whether it is a truck trailer, rail car, export container, or air freight container. Many people think shipping mysteriously «happens», but there is a complex and mandatory combina [..]

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Transfers finished, packages product onto trucks for delivery.

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The process of physically moving merchandise form a point of origin, like a retailer’s warehouse, to a destination, like a customer’s home.

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(n) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials(n) conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry(n) a vessel that carries passengers or freight(v) transport com [..]

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The function that performs tasks for the outgoing shipment of parts, components, and products. It includes packaging, marking, weighing, and loading for shipment. Staging:

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Physically transferring a product from the seller’s warehouse to the customer’s delivery address.

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The process of physically moving merchandise form a point of origin, like a retailer’s warehouse, to a destination, like a customer’s home.

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Grisebach will organize appropriate transportation for all auctioned works (photographs, graphics and smaller pictures not framed in glass) which are insured for up to 25,000 Euro. A forwarding compan [..]

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Term used for carriage of goods by sea. Establishes legal provisions which include the transport by sea, its regulations, ownership and employment and rights and liabilities connected with or growing [..]

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The physical act of transferring a cellular therapy product within or between facilities. During shipping the product leaves the control of trained personnel at the transporting or receiving facility.

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Shipping, initially derived from the word relationship, is the desire by fans for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters (in film, literature, television, etc.) to be in a [..]

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Shipping is the transportation of cargo.
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Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English, it has been ex [..]

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перевозка груза, судоходство, перевозка, погрузка, торговые суда, торговый флот

существительное

- суда, морской флот

scarcity of shipping — нехватка судов

- общий тоннаж флота
- погрузка, отправка, отгрузка; посадка

shipping documents — грузовые /погрузочные/ документы
shipping instructions — инструкции по отправке товара, погрузочные инструкции
shipping place — место отгрузки

- ком. поставка
- судоходство

shipping season — навигационный период
shipping line — судоходная линия

- транспортировка (любым видом транспорта); транспортное дело

shipping crop — культура (растений) для дальних перевозок; экспортная культура
shipping costs — стоимость перевозки

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Словосочетания

sea / shipping lane — морской путь  
shipping terminal — порт  
shipping business — экспедиторское дело  
shipping charge — плата за перевозку [транспортировку]  
shipping company — судоходная компания  
shipping container — транспортная тара  
shipping cost — транспортные издержки  
shipping data — отгрузочные данные  
dispersal of shipping — рассредоточение торговых судов  
empty a shipping unit — очистить элемент отгрузки  

Примеры с переводом

The fruit was ready for shipping.

Фрукты были готовы к отправке.

The shipping charges are prepaid.

Расходы на транспортировку оплачиваются заранее.

The cargo was containerized for safe and efficient shipping.

Груз был размещён в контейнерах для безопасной и эффективной перевозки.

Tape the shipping label to the box.

Приклейте на коробку транспортную этикетку.

This shipping line plies across the ocean.

Этот рейс пересекает океан.

The book is priced at $30.00 plus shipping and handling of $5.00.

Книга оценена в 30 долл. плюс затраты на погрузку и перевозку в размере 5 долл.

Register of Shipping of the USSR

Регистр СССР

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Примеры, ожидающие перевода

The port is closed to all shipping.

When the waves increased, the boat began shipping water.

They protected our shipping from submarines during wartime.

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке , напротив примера.

Возможные однокоренные слова

ship  — корабль, судно, парусное судно, грузить товары, садиться на корабль

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noun

the act or business of a person or thing that ships.

a number of ships, especially merchant ships, taken as a whole; tonnage.

Obsolete. a voyage.

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Origin of shipping

1

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at ship1, -ing1

OTHER WORDS FROM shipping

non·ship·ping, adjective

Words nearby shipping

ship out, shipowner, shippable, shipper, shippie, shipping, shipping agent, shipping articles, shipping clerk, shipping fever, shipping lane

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noun Slang.

the act or practice of discussing, writing about, or hoping for a romantic relationship between fictional characters, as in fan fiction, or between famous people, whether or not the romance actually exists in the book, show, etc., or in real life:the shipping of TV characters;shipping in webcomics.

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What else does shipping mean?

Shipping is the act of wanting two or more fictional characters or celebrities to end up in a relationship, usually romantic.

Where does shipping come from?

Though the term didn’t come around until later, the concept of shipping itself predated any label. The first widely-known ship, appearing around the mid-1970s, was the romantic pairing of Kirk and Spock or Kirk/Spock from Star Trek. (The slash between the names is why fan fiction about two men is now called slash. It has since extended to women with femslash.)

The actual term ship apparently came from the X-Files fandom. Fans who wanted Mulder and Scully to get together were called relationshippers starting in the 1990s. These people were known as r’shippers or shippers for short by as early as 1996. 1996 was a big year for shipping, as ‘ship as a noun appeared in discussions about the canonization of a romantic relationship between the two characters. By 1998, ship was a full-on verb.

By 1999, the terms shipper and ship appeared in Star Trek fandom, possibly indicating a cross-pollination of fandoms, perhaps because both shows involve extraterrestrials. A shipper is a person who engages in shipping. They might write fan fiction or draw art of characters involved, often with the characters ending up in a relationship or already being in a relationship. They might also discuss their ship with fellow fans, sometimes presenting evidence as to the characters’ chemistry.

Not too soon after these words entered the Star Trek fandom, they spread to other fandoms like Harry Potter, which was growing its own fanbase following the popularity of the books. The term exploded by 2002, and by 2003, it was finally added to Urban Dictionary, signaling that its presence online had been secured.

Even decades since Kirk/Spock, shipping thrives. It also continues to evolve, with fans shipping real-life personalities and celebrities (Larry Stylinson, a shipping of One Direction’s Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson) as well as developing increasing subgenres and increasingly large fandoms. However, this type of shipping can be somewhat controversial, and people doing it are sometimes warned to be careful to not cross boundaries.

How is shipping used in real life?

As a verb, people usually declare their affinity for a certain pairing by saying something like “I ship Character X and Character Y!” Alternatively, when faced with a situation that makes characters seem cute together, they may say “I ship it.” Someone who so ships a character is a shipper (e.g., a Ron Weasley/Hermione Granger shipper in Harry Potter fandom).

Many fans have strong opinions about shipping, which may result in shipping wars within a fandom, where each side wants a different ship to become canon, or part of the actual story or narrative.

Ships, which are the pairings themselves, have a variety of ways they can be named. Blending character names together is a popular choice. Though many are funny, many are more straightforward and aren’t as laughter-inducing. Ships may also be known under another name entirely. For example the ship name for Finn and Poe from Star Wars is Stormpilot because Finn was formerly a stormtrooper and Poe is a rebel pilot. And, the ship for the characters in the 17th season of Pokémon:XY are called AmourShipping.

While making up new names is fun, the most unambiguous way to name a ship is to place character names next to each other, separated by an x or a /. For example, Ash/Misty or AshxMisty. This more easily accommodates polyamorous ships as well, like Ron/Harry/Hermione in Harry Potter.

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This content is not meant to be a formal definition of this term. Rather, it is an informal summary that seeks to provide supplemental information and context important to know or keep in mind about the term’s history, meaning, and usage.

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How to use shipping in a sentence

  • The deal also includes free shipping for Amazon Prime members.

  • This very rapid ecommerce growth did come with some hiccups, including a crushing number of packages leading to shipping delays at public and private carriers, including the USPS and UPS.

  • A 23-year-old who works for a shipping company, and who declined to give his name for safety fears, said he was disgusted by the military.

  • Along with the anticipated delayed shipping and production times, unfortunately our onboarding process with Neiman Marcus was initially put on hold.

  • Araujo says they’re also looking into making the sauce available for national and international shipping.

  • Manufacturing merchandise, publicity (a radio ad in SF, Facebook ads, venue specific advertising), supplies, shipping.

  • A plastic factory, a hardware supplier, and shipping–and-receiving giants like Fed-Ex and DHL are neighboring businesses.

  • Higher shipping costs mean additional friction for companies working in the Canadian oil sands.

  • Although new to the shipping industry, Kaiser proved a success in turning out the ships America needed.

  • By Abby Haglage The shipping company heads to court Tuesday to face $1.6 billion in charges of conspiring to traffic illegal meds.

  • She was only having a look; flying around the shipping and Headquarters camp at a great height, but dropping no bombs.

  • That curious, almost ridiculous-looking craft, was among the aristocracy of shipping.

  • After curing, it is removed to the packing house and baled in packages, and then transported on mules to the coast for shipping.

  • The long cavalcade is seen disappearing down the hill, while away in the distance is Portsmouth Harbour with its crowded shipping.

  • The Pryor makes the heaviest, richest shipping, and can only be grown to perfection on alluvial or heavily manured lands.

British Dictionary definitions for shipping


noun

  1. the business of transporting freight, esp by ship
  2. (as modifier)a shipping magnate; shipping line
  1. ships collectivelythere is a lot of shipping in the Channel
  2. the tonnage of a number of shipsshipping for this year exceeded that of last

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One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHIPPING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHIPPING

Shipping is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHIPPING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

shipping

Freight transport

Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. The term Shipping originally referred to transport by sea, but is extended in American English to refer to transport by land or air as well. «Logistics», a term borrowed from the military environment, is also fashionably used in the same sense.


Definition of shipping in the English dictionary

The first definition of shipping in the dictionary is the business of transporting freight, esp by ship. Other definition of shipping is ships collectively. Shipping is also the tonnage of a number of ships.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHIPPING

Synonyms and antonyms of shipping in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS OF «SHIPPING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shipping» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «shipping» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHIPPING

Find out the translation of shipping to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of shipping from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shipping» in English.

Translator English — Chinese


航运业

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English — Spanish


transporte marítimo

570 millions of speakers

English


shipping

510 millions of speakers

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शिपिंग

380 millions of speakers

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الشحن

280 millions of speakers

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доставка

278 millions of speakers

Translator English — Portuguese


frete

270 millions of speakers

Translator English — Bengali


পাঠানো

260 millions of speakers

Translator English — French


navigation

220 millions of speakers

Translator English — Malay


penghantaran

190 millions of speakers

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Versand

180 millions of speakers

Translator English — Japanese


海運業

130 millions of speakers

Translator English — Korean


해운

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Javanese


Kapal

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Vietnamese


vận chuyển

80 millions of speakers

Translator English — Tamil


கப்பல்

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Marathi


शिपिंग

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Turkish


Nakliye

70 millions of speakers

Translator English — Italian


trasporto marittimo

65 millions of speakers

Translator English — Polish


wysyłka

50 millions of speakers

Translator English — Ukrainian


доставка

40 millions of speakers

Translator English — Romanian


transport

30 millions of speakers

Translator English — Greek


ναυτιλία

15 millions of speakers

Translator English — Afrikaans


gestuur

14 millions of speakers

Translator English — Swedish


sändnings

10 millions of speakers

Translator English — Norwegian


frakt

5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shipping

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHIPPING»

The term «shipping» is very widely used and occupies the 1.257 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHIPPING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shipping

10 QUOTES WITH «SHIPPING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shipping.

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn’t get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located — Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.

But it’s not just the cattle producers, it’s all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government’s decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia.

It’s so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us… they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.

Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.

We know about man’s impact on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don’t really know much about what’s happening underneath the water. And in fact, shipping has a role to play here, because shipping noise has contributed to damaging the acoustic habitats of ocean creatures.

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story in the British Museum’s collection than any other. Britain has been more connected with the rest of the world than any other country, for longer.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHIPPING»

Discover the use of shipping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shipping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

1

The Shipping News: A Novel

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Anne Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.

2

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller …

The Box tells the dramatic story of the container’s creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.

3

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible …

Sharply informative and entertaining, Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization.

4

Shipping and Logistics Management

Shipping and Logistics Management serves to consolidate the knowledge its authors have acquired from being educators and observers of the shipping industry.

Yuen Ha (Venus) Lun, Kee Hung Lai, Tai Chiu Edwin Cheng, 2010

5

A Short History of the World’s Shipping Industry

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The various chapters in the book represent areas that are of central concern to ongoing research in the field. As such, the book is useful to students, researchers, industrialists, policy makers and consultants.

Suitable for bankers, lawyers, ship owners and those involved in ship finance, this work covers topics such as; financing secondhand ships; financing new buildings; the banker’s perspective; derivatives in shipping finance; equity and debt …

8

Shipping Strategy: Innovating for Success

In Shipping Strategy Peter Lorange draws on his extensive experience in the shipping industry to show how companies can adapt to the fast-moving and volatile world of maritime business by devising strategies for future success, including …

9

Econometric Modelling of World Shipping

This is the first time that a model of this type has been published. This book also breaks new ground in explaining the behaviour of vessel prices, both new and secondhand.

M. Beenstock, A. Vergottis, 1993

Shipping Law covers the whole spectrum of English shipping law and is the only student text to address both wet and dry shipping law matters.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHIPPING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shipping is used in the context of the following news items.

Singapore shipping firm blacklisted by US over North Korea links

The US has blacklisted a Singapore-based shipping firm over allegations it is supporting illicit arms shipments to North Korea. The US Treasury said that Senat … «BBC News, Jul 15»

Walmart Answers Amazon’s “Prime Day” With Deals And Free …

The company notes that the free shipping requirements are being put into place “until further notice,” which implies that this is a lengthier promotion, if not a … «TechCrunch, Jul 15»

Amazon now offering free shipping for small, inexpensive things

If you’ve held off on ordering those pipe cleaners because you don’t want to pay for shipping, then you’re exactly the customer that Amazon is looking for. «CNNMoney, Jun 15»

UPDATE 1-Amazon offers limited free shipping on same-day …

(Adds details on shipping deals offered by competitors, research results, background). By Nandita Bose. May 28 (Reuters) — Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it … «Reuters, May 15»

Walmart’s Answer to Amazon Prime Is Here. And It’s Way Cheaper.

A decade after Amazon launched Prime, its signature membership and free shipping program, Walmart has a rebuttal ready: unlimited shipping for half the price. «Slate Magazine, May 15»

FedEx Loses Motion to Dismiss DOJ Drug-Shipping Charges

… repeatedly ignored warnings from government officials that the delivery company was breaking the law by shipping drugs ordered from online pharmacies that … «Wall Street Journal, May 15»

Shipping industry struggling to cope with migrant crisis in …

Commercial shipping authorities might have been piqued when Italian Prosecutor Giovanni Salvi suggested that the Portuguese-flagged King Jacob that came … «Fox News, Apr 15»

Massachusetts man selling, shipping snow from his yard

MANCHESTER-by-the-SEA, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man has found a way to profit from the several feet of snow in his yard: He’s shipping it to people in … «fox4kc.com, Feb 15»

Target cuts free-shipping minimum in half to $25

NEW YORK (AP) — Target (TGT) has sliced its minimum online purchase to qualify for free shipping in half to $25 as the Internet becomes a bigger and bigger … «USA TODAY, Feb 15»

UPS Accused of Shipping Untaxed Cigarettes in New York

The lawsuit accused UPS of shipping nearly 700,000 cigarette cartons … taxes and that the fees collected by UPS to ship these untaxed cigarettes are paid out … «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»

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The word shipping has more than one meaning.

  1. We use the term when we refer to all ships, i.e., when we are talking about sea vessels collectively.
  2. It can mean the transportation of cargo (goods) by sea (and also land and air).
  3. It is a charge that shops add to the price of a product when they send it to you. In this case, it means the same as ‘delivery charges.’

The Cambdridge Dictionary has the following definition of shipping:

“1. Ships considered as a group: ‘This stretch of water is heavily used by shipping.’ 2. The act of sending goods from one place to another, especially by ship: “Cost is $205 plus $3 for shipping.”

The term ‘shipping,’ meaning the ‘act of sending cargo by ship’ emerged in the English language in the late fifteenth century. It was not until the 1590s that the term also meant ‘ships generally or collectively.’



Shipping – freight transport

The terms shipping, freight transport, and carriage have the same meaning in this context. They refer to the transportation of goods (cargo, freight).

Initially, shipping only referred to the delivery of cargo by sea. However, today it also includes deliveries by air and land too. ‘To ship’ means ‘to deliver.’

In a business environment, it is common for people to use the term logistics with a similar meaning. Logistics, a subset of supply chain management, deals with the challenge of coordinating and planning the flow of goods (and information), i.e., making sure things get to the right place at the right time.

Strait of Malacca shipping route 44444

The Strait of Malacca is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. It is the main channel between the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The shipping industry

The shipping industry (or simply ‘shipping’) is responsible for the transportation of ninety percent of world trade. In other words, 90% of world trade is transported by sea.

According to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), it is the life blood of the worldwide economy.

International trade would simply not be possible if we stopped transporting goods by ship. International trade refers to imports and exports, i.e., trade between nations.

OOCL Hong Cong - largest container ship in the world

According to Wikipedia: “OOCL Hong Kong is the largest container ship ever built, and the third container ship to surpass the 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU).”

The ICS makes the following comment on its website:

“Seaborne trade continues to expand, bringing benefits for consumers across the world through competitive freight costs. Thanks to the growing efficiency of shipping as a mode of transport and increased economic liberalisation, the prospects for the industry’s further growth continue to be strong.”

“There are over 50,000 merchant ships trading internationally, transporting every kind of cargo. The world fleet is registered in over 150 nations and manned by over a million seafarers of virtually every nationality.”

The shipping industry is huge. Merchant ships are estimated to generate half-a-trillion dollars worth of business in freight rates each year.

Biggest container shipping companies

Top ten container shipping companies image

Data Source: www.championfreight.co.nz.

The Danish company, A.P. Moller–Maersk Group, is the world’s largest container SHIPPING company.

It employs 79,000 workers across 130 nations and has an armada of 707 ships. It currently has 17.7% of the world international SHIPPING market (2019).

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