Dictionary

drop ship en · VERB

Meanings

1. (transitive) To deliver goods for a business directly to its customers, as though the business owned a relevant inventory, but with the manufacturer as the real source of the delivery.
   • Rowan also experimented with dropshipping. This entails setting up an online storefront that ships products from third-party retailers to customers, profiting on the difference. 2019 November 29, Taylor Lorenz, “Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom”, in New York Times:
   • If you drop ship the orders, then you don't need to own the products; thus, fewer of your customers suspect you're acting as a middle man.

Forms

Deriveds

dropshipper

Descendants

dropshippen

Translations (4)

id pesan pasok (to act as a middle-man while lacking own inventory) · id pesan antar (to act as a middle-man while lacking own inventory) · es dropshipear (to act as a middle-man while lacking own inventory) · nl dropshippen (to act as a middle-man while lacking own inventory)