SHIPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipping mean? 

• SHIPPING (noun)
  The noun SHIPPING has 2 senses:

1. the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

2. conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry

  Familiarity information: SHIPPING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shipping; transport; transportation

Hypernyms ("shipping" is a kind of...):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Domain member category:

on-line; online (on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system)

off-line (not on a regular route of a transportation system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shipping"):

air transport; air transportation (transportation by air)

navigation (ship traffic)

hauling; truckage; trucking (the activity of transporting goods by truck)

freight; freightage (transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates)

express; expressage (rapid transport of goods)

ferry; ferrying (transport by boat or aircraft)

Holonyms ("shipping" is a part of...):

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

Derivation:

ship (transport commercially)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cargo ships; merchant marine; merchant vessels; shipping

Hypernyms ("shipping" is a kind of...):

conveyance; transport (something that serves as a means of transportation)

 Context examples 

Jonathan and the two doctors went to the shipping agent to learn particulars of the arrival of the Czarina Catherine.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Device problems traced back to how the device was shipped (some examples may include the temperature of the shipping compartment or the method of transportation).

(Device Shipping Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

And on the last night of the second week they topped White Pass and dropped down the sea slope with the lights of Skaguay and of the shipping at their feet.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

EXAMPLE(S): a shipping carton, bottle

(Package, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

It had been ascertained at the shipping offices that Browner had left aboard of the May Day, and I calculate that she is due in the Thames to-morrow night.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A straight-sided cylindrical shipping container with flat ends; one of which can be opened/closed.

(Packaging Drum, NCI Thesaurus)

I saw these advertisements about harpooners, and high wages, so I went to the shipping agents, and they sent me here.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This issue is restricted to happening at the location where the device is used as opposed to during manufacturer or shipping.

(Cleaning Disinfecting or Sterilization Problem during Medical Device Use, Food and Drug Administration)

Performing a review of the storage and shipping processes and requirements.

(Device Storage and Shipment Review Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

And when he read his paper of an evening, Demi's colic got into the shipping list and Daisy's fall affected the price of stocks, for Mrs. Brooke was only interested in domestic news.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)