What does Shipment mean?

Definitions for Shipment
ˈʃɪp məntship·ment

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignmentnoun

    goods carried by a large vehicle

  2. dispatch, despatch, shipmentnoun

    the act of sending off something

Wiktionary

  1. shipmentnoun

    a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship)

  2. shipmentnoun

    the act of transporting goods

  3. Etymology: ship + -ment

ChatGPT

  1. shipment

    Shipment refers to the process of transporting goods, commodities, or cargo from one location to another. This can occur through various modes of transportation including land (trucks, trains), sea (ships), or air (planes). Typically, a shipment can include any quantity of goods, packaged and prepared for transport, ranging from small parcels to large scale commercial freight.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Shipmentnoun

    the act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West

  2. Shipmentnoun

    that which is shipped

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. shipment

    The act of shipping goods, or any other thing, on board a ship or vessel.

Editors Contribution

  1. shipment

    To transport or ship goods.

    The shipment was simple and cost effective.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 17, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shipment in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Shipment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Shipment in a Sentence

  1. The Pentagon:

    Out of an abundance of caution, (the Defense Department) has stopped the shipment of this material from its labs pending completion of the investigation.

  2. Secretary Esper:

    On the first day, as President Donald Trump rightly said, we thought it might have been an attack, some of us speculated it could have been, for example, a Hezbollah arms shipment that blew up, maybe a Hezbollah bomb making facility, who knows ?

  3. Antony Blinken:

    The United States is designating 15 individuals and entities that engaged in the illicit sales and shipment of Iranian petroleum, petroleum products, and petrochemical products. These entities, located in Iran, Vietnam, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates( UAE), and Hong Kong, have supported Iranian energy trade generating millions of dollars' worth of illicit revenue.

  4. Chief Rich Elliott:

    We're over 95 % distributed for the vaccine that we have received up until this week, because we just got a huge shipment of the vaccine, after Friday of next week, we'll be back well over 95 %. When I say 95 %, the vaccine is either in people's arms or people have a hard date when their appointment is because you have to space the first and second doses out.

  5. Jacques Champagne de Labriolle:

    The shipment is organised as the size of the French military intervention in CAR (Central African Republic) is being reduced, the Nigerian federal and airport authorities, being satisfied with the documents and the genuine character of the flight, have announced that the plane will be authorized to pursue its flight to N'Djamena.

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