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shipment|ˈʃɪpmənt|
[f. ship v. + -ment.]
1. The act of shipping (goods or commodities) for transportation.
1802Abbott Law Merch. Ships iii. vii. 225 In this country it is not unusual to pay for goods shipped for the East or West Indies, at the time of the shipment. 1833H. Martineau Demerara xii, I wish you could once witness a shipment for Liberia. 1848Dickens Dombey vi, Where's that young spark of Dombey's who's been watching the shipment of them goods? 1880C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 371 The road..winding..past numerous coffee plantations to their port of shipment at Mangalor.
2. That which is shipped; a consignment of goods for transportation.
1861May Const. Hist. (1863) II. xvii. 559 A drawback was given them of the whole English duty, on shipments to the American plantations. 1872Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 11 Though the shipments are as yet small, they bid fair to improve rapidly. 1900Jrnl. Soc. Dyers XVI. 6 Shipments are also sent to Europe and to the United States.
3. attrib. and Comb. (esp. in Commerce = intended for shipment).
1887Daily News 15 Oct. 2/4 Shipment jute is easier. 1895Ibid. 3 Oct. 3/3 The floating and forward shipment market. 1897P. Warung Tales Old Regime 54 After a seven-days' tramp on the chain from an assize-town to the shipment port. |