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Shipping
Definitions
- 1 The transportation of goods. countable, uncountable
"From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip."
- 2 The desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters, to be in a romantic or sexual relationship. slang, uncountable
- 3 the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials wordnet
- 4 The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively. countable, uncountable
"Our overplus of shipping will we burn; / And, with the rest full-mann’d, from the head of Actium / Beat the approaching Caesar."
- 5 conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry wordnet
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- 6 Passage or transport on a ship. countable, uncountable
- 7 The cost of sending an item or package using postal or carrier services. countable, uncountable
"The shipping is included in the quoted price."
- 8 Navigation. countable, uncountable
"God send 'em good shipping."
- 1 present participle and gerund of ship form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship + -ing.
From ship + -ing.
Clipping of relationshipping.
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