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Definition of shipping office in English: shipping officenoun The office of a shipping agent or shipping master. Example sentencesExamples - It was the administrative centre for the district, with a busy port, a trading post, handsome brick shipping offices, and a hospital.
- After working for ten years as a clerk in a shipping office and a book-keeper in an accountancy firm, he entered Coventry Drama School in 1971.
- After scrambling onto a lifeboat she made her way to the White Star Line shipping offices which owned the Titanic.
- His first paid position was clerk in a shipping office, with responsibility for sending coals to Newcastle.
- ‘It's absolutely vital that I make my connection at Place X,’ he would decree from time to time, usually to the manager of a sweaty shipping office.
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