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Transshipment

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.

n. The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Same as transhipment.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment

Word Usage

"Also likely to end up on the cutting-room floor is language targeting goods in "transshipment" - that is, passing through the US on their way to a final foreign destination-that infringe American IP laws."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

conveyance transfer transport transferral transportation

Variant

transhipment

Form

transshipment point

Same Context

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