What does shipment mean?
Definitions for shipment
ˈʃɪp məntship·ment
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word shipment.
Princeton's WordNet
cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment(noun)
goods carried by a large vehicle
dispatch, despatch, shipment(noun)
the act of sending off something
Wiktionary
shipment(Noun)
a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship)
Etymology: ship + -ment
shipment(Noun)
the act of transporting goods
Etymology: ship + -ment
Webster Dictionary
Shipment(noun)
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
Shipment(noun)
that which is shipped
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
shipment
The act of shipping goods, or any other thing, on board a ship or vessel.
Editors Contribution
shipment
To transport or ship goods.
The shipment was simple and cost effective.
Submitted by MaryC on February 17, 2020
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of shipment in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of shipment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of shipment in a Sentence
We're seeing, not just heroin, but other opioids – ranging from fentanyl to Carfentanil, Opana, and others – that are being shipped with great regularity; with the purchase happening in the dark web, the money transactions happen with a crypto-currency, and the shipment is being concealed, it makes it increasingly difficult for us to do those investigations.
Doctors and nurses have been... weeks without new supplies, running water, and electricity, this medical shipment will inject new stocks, help patients.
This quarter, as with Q3, shipment of higher priced Model 3 variants (this time to Europe and Asia) will hopefully allow us, with great difficulty, effort and some luck, to target a tiny profit.
Customs Department Director-General Somchai Sujjapongse:
After these two consecutive big busts ... the transnational crime networks must realize it is getting increasingly difficult to send their shipment past Thailand, but I think they will try to come up with the more complicated means, so we will have already prepared the measures to (tackle the issue).
The DOD lab was working as part of a DOD effort to develop a field-based test to identify biological threats in the environment, out of an abundance of caution, DOD has stopped the shipment of this material from its labs pending completion of the investigation.
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