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Shipment definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHIP'MENT, n.
1. The act of putting any thing on board of another ship or vessel; embarkation; as, he engaged in the shipment of coal for London.
2. The goods or things shipped, or put on board of another ship or vessel. We say, the merchants have made large shipments to the United States.
The question is whether the share of M in the shipment is exempted from the condemnation by reason of his nuetral domicil. J. Story.
SHIP'-MONEY, n. [ship and money.] In English history, the imosition formerly charged on the ports, towns, cities, boroughs and counties of England, for providing and furnishing certain ships for the king's service. This imosition being laid by the king's writ under the great seal, without the consent of the parliament, was held to contrary to the laws and statutes of th erealm, and abolished by Stat. 17 Car. 11.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment]
2: the act of sending off something [syn: dispatch, despatch, shipment]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1799 1. the act or process of shipping 2. the goods shipped

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an amount of goods shipped; a consignment. 2 the act or an instance of shipping goods etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shipment Ship"ment, n. 1. The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West. 2. That which is shipped. The question is, whether the share of M. in the shipment is exempted from condemnation by reason of his neutral domicle. --Story.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(shipments) 1. A shipment is an amount of a particular kind of cargo that is sent to another country on a ship, train, aeroplane, or other vehicle. Food shipments could begin in a matter of weeks. ...a shipment of weapons. N-COUNT: usu N n, N of n 2. The shipment of a cargo somewhere is the sending of it there by ship, train, aeroplane, or some other vehicle. Bananas are packed before being transported to the docks for shipment overseas.

Moby Thesaurus

air express, airfreight, airlift, asportation, baggage, bearing, cargo, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage, consignment, conveyance, drayage, expressage, ferriage, freight, freightage, goods, haulage, hauling, impedimenta, lading, lighterage, load, luggage, lugging, pack, packing, payload, portage, porterage, railway express, shipping, telpherage, toting, transport, transportation, transshipment, truckage, waft, waftage, wagonage