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shipload Definition

ship·load (-lōd′)

noun

a full load for a ship

shipload Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • cigarette: But it is hard to imagine that manufacturers could sell shiploads of cigarettes without knowing where the product was going.
  • grain: The first shipload of grain that came for the starving Irish was from India.
  • humor: Grotesque puppets, animated sets and shiploads of absurd humor are welded into a dark comic-book version of low-life on the high seas.

Adjective modifier

  • first: The first shipload of grain that came for the starving Irish was from India.
  • whole: Sometimes, out of whole shiploads, perhaps containing 1000 containers, only about 10 might be checked with any thoroughness.