shipmentn.
/ˈʃɪpmənt/ 1. The act of shipping (goods or commodities) for transportation.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > transportation of goods
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1802 C. Abbott Law Merchant 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.
1833 H. Martineau Demerara (ed. 3) xii I wish you could once witness a shipment for Liberia.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vi. 54 Where's that young spark of Dombeys who's been watching the shipment of them goods?
1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian 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.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > [noun] > cargo
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1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) II. xvii. 559 A drawback was given them of the whole English duty, on shipments to the American plantations.
1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 11 Though the shipments are as yet small, they bid fair to improve rapidly.
1900 Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists 16 6 Shipments are also sent to Europe and to the United States.
3. attributive and in other combinations (esp. in Commerce = intended for shipment).
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1887 Daily News 15 Oct. 2/4 Shipment jute is easier.
1895 Daily News 3 Oct. 3/3 The floating and forward shipment market.
1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 54 After a seven-days' tramp on the chain from an assize-town to the shipment port.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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