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SHIPPING AGENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipping agent mean? 

SHIPPING AGENT (noun)
  The noun SHIPPING AGENT has 1 sense:

1. the agent of a shipownerplay

  Familiarity information: SHIPPING AGENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHIPPING AGENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The agent of a shipowner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

agent (a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations)


 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)



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