shipping en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/
- /ˈʃɪpiŋ/ Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/-tensing
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship + -ing.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The transportation of goods.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
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(countable, uncountable) The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively.
Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:My first afternoon, on reaching New Bedford, was spent in visiting the wharves and viewing the shipping.
1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 22, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, page 345:[…] the Advantage appeared greatly on their Side, in Numbers of Shipping, and of Men;
1724, Daniel Defoe, A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, Introduction, page 23:Our overplus of shipping will we burn; / And, with the rest full-mann’d, from the head of Actium / Beat the approaching Caesar.
c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene 7:[…] I clearly remember a castle on the shores of the lagoon, where gondolas appeared amid larger shipping, which seemed to be plying in and out of Naples […]
1970, Robertson Davies, chapter 2, in Fifth Business, Toronto: Macmillan, page 107:
- (countable, uncountable) Passage or transport on a ship.
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(countable, uncountable) The cost of sending an item or package using postal or carrier services.
The shipping is included in the quoted price.
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(countable, uncountable) Navigation.
God send 'em good shipping.
c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shippings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
fleet · navy · voyage · haulage · postage · carriage
Deriveds
trans-shipping · shipping fever · shipping company · shipping container · shipping and handling · shipping agent · anti-shipping · merchant shipping · shipping lane · shipping master · short-sea shipping · take shipping · preshipping · shipping forecast · nonshipping
Translations (77)
el έξοδα αποστολής (cost of sending goods) · fi laivamatka (passage or transport on a ship) · ru перево́зка (transportation of goods) · pt taxas de envio (cost of sending goods) · ca despeses de transport (cost of sending goods) · fr frais de port (cost of sending goods) · mk брода́рење (passage or transport on a ship) · gd luingeas (body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry) · sh plovidba (passage or transport on a ship) · fr expédition (transportation of goods) · sh brodarenje (passage or transport on a ship) · it spese di spedizione (cost of sending goods) · gl envío (transportation of goods) · pt transporte (transportation of goods) · es transporte (transportation of goods) · mk до́ставка (transportation of goods) · de Transportkosten (cost of sending goods) · bg флот (body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry) · sh podvoznina (cost of sending goods) · fi toimitus (transportation of goods) · sh prijevoz (transportation of goods) · sh isporuka (transportation of goods) · fi laivaus (passage or transport on a ship) · pt remessa (transportation of goods) · ca transport (transportation of goods) · ga seoladh (transportation of goods) · ga iompar (cost of sending goods) · bg навло (cost of sending goods) · sv frakt (transportation of goods) · cs doprava (cost of sending goods) · da forsendelsesomkostninger (cost of sending goods) · fr transport (cost of sending goods) · bg доставка (transportation of goods) · de Versandkosten (cost of sending goods) · mk фло́та (body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry) · ga loingseoireacht (passage or transport on a ship) · cs přeprava (transportation of goods) · mk по́двоз (cost of sending goods) · cy cludiant (cost of sending goods) · sv fraktkostnad (cost of sending goods) · sh dostavnina (cost of sending goods) · pt frota (body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry) · hu szállítási költség (cost of sending goods) · sh dostava (transportation of goods) · es gastos de transporte (cost of sending goods) · cmn 運輸 /运输 (transportation of goods) · fi laivakuljetus (passage or transport on a ship) · fi kuljetuskustannus (cost of sending goods) · no fraktutgifter (cost of sending goods) · ga seachadadh (cost of sending goods) · gl gastos de envío (cost of sending goods) · pt envio (transportation of goods) · hu szállítás (transportation of goods) · sh podvoz (cost of sending goods) · fi kuljetus (transportation of goods) · fi laivasto (body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry) · la nāviculāria (transportation of goods) · ru отпра́вка (transportation of goods) · nl verzending (transportation of goods) · mk доставу́вање (transportation of goods) · fr envoi (transportation of goods) · ca enviament (transportation of goods) · ru доста́вка (transportation of goods) · fr frais de livraison (cost of sending goods) · de Schifffahrt (transportation of goods) · ga loingeas (body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry) · mk до́става (transportation of goods) · mk пло́видба (passage or transport on a ship) · ca despeses d'enviament (cost of sending goods) · cmn 船舶 (body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry) · bg доставяне (transportation of goods) · es envío (transportation of goods) · sh otprema (transportation of goods) · es gastos de envío (cost of sending goods) · fr frais de transport (cost of sending goods) · cmn 航運 /航运 (transportation of goods) · mk пре́воз (transportation of goods)