Shipping Definition

shĭpĭng
noun
The act or business of sending or transporting goods.
Webster's New World
Ships, esp. commercial ships, collectively, as those belonging to a certain nation or using a certain port.
Webster's New World

Passage or transport on a ship.

Wiktionary
The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.
Wiktionary
Navigation.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Shipping

Noun

Singular:
shipping
Plural:
shippings

Origin of Shipping

  • From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from Middle English schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate"), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship"), equivalent to ship +"Ž -ing.

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  • From ship +"Ž -ing.

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