Shipping

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or business of transporting goods.
  • n. The body of ships belonging to one port, industry, or country, often referred to in aggregate tonnage.
  • n. Passage or transport on a ship.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The transportation of goods.
  • n. The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry.
  • n. Passage or transport on a ship.
  • n. The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.
  • v. Present participle of ship.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Relating to ships, their ownership, transfer, or employment.
  • adj. Relating to, or concerned in, the forwarding of goods.
  • n. The act of one who, or of that which, ships.
  • n. The collective body of ships in one place, or belonging to one port, country, etc.; vessels, generally; tonnage.
  • n. Navigation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of taking ship; a voyage.
  • n. The act of sending freight by ship or other wise.
  • n. Ships in general; ships or vessels of any kind for navigation; the collective body of ships belonging to a country, port, etc.; also, their aggregate tonnage: as, the shipping of the United Kingdom exceeds that of any other country: also used attributively: as, shipping laws.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
  • n. the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    conveyance    transport   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tonnage    navigation    ships    marine   
    Verb Stem
    ship   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    chipping    clipping    dipping    dripping    equipping    flipping    gripping    nipping    outstripping    ripping