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shipment

(ʃɪpmənt)
Word forms: plural shipments
1. countable noun [usually NOUN noun]
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. [+ of]
2. uncountable noun
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.

shipment in British English

(ˈʃɪpmənt)
noun
1. 
a. 
goods shipped together as part of the same lot
a shipment of grain
b. 
(as modifier)
a shipment schedule
2. 
the act of shipping cargo

shipment in American English

(ˈʃɪpmənt)
noun
1. 
the shipping or transporting of goods
2. 
goods shipped or consigned

shipment in Retail

(ʃɪpmənt)
Word forms: (regular plural) shipments
noun (count) (noncount)
(Retail: Distribution)
A shipment is all of the goods being shipped together at the same time.
Risk of loss passes from the manufacturer as soon as the carrier takes possessionof the shipment.
After that, food shipments to the port could begin in a matter of weeks.
A shipment is all of the goods being shipped together at the same time.
drop shipment, ship, shipper

shipment in Accounting

(ʃɪpmənt)
Word forms: (regular plural) shipments
noun (count) (noncount)
(Accounting: Commerce)
A shipment is all of the goods being shipped together at the same time.
If regular shipments are made, an open-cargo policy can be used that insures the goods automatically whenthey are shipped.
After that, food shipments to the port could begin in a matter of weeks.
A shipment is all of the goods being shipped together at the same time.

Examples of 'shipment' in a sentence
shipment

He said that he expected to receive the first shipment in the coming weeks.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The first shipments of artworks originally had been due to arrive in Britain yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Last month, the first shipment arrived.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The slide represents the tenth month in 2015 in which overseas shipments of finished Chinese goods have decreased.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The first of three shipments from German army reserves will equip 4,000 soldiers by the end of the month.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
They sold the cod to the company, who employed women to cut them open, dry them and pack them in barrels for shipment overseas.
Edward Beauclerk Maurice THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic (2004)
A large shipment had just arrived from ABC.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)

In other languages
shipment

British English: shipment /ˈʃɪpmənt/ NOUN
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.
  • American English: shipment
  • Arabic: شَحْنَة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: carregamento
  • Chinese: 装船
  • Croatian: pošiljka
  • Czech: zásilka
  • Danish: sending
  • Dutch: zending
  • European Spanish: remesa
  • Finnish: lähetys tavara
  • French: envoi
  • German: Ladung Fracht
  • Greek: αποστολή μεταφορά
  • Italian: spedizione
  • Japanese: 積み荷
  • Korean: 선적
  • Norwegian: forsendelse
  • Polish: wysyłka
  • European Portuguese: carregamento
  • Romanian: încărcătură
  • Russian: отгрузка
  • Latin American Spanish: envío
  • Swedish: sändning
  • Thai: จำนวนสินค้าที่ขนส่งทางเรือ
  • Turkish: yükleme
  • Ukrainian: партія товару
  • Vietnamese: hàng gửi

Chinese translation of 'shipment'

shipment

(ˈʃɪpmənt)

n (c)

  1. [of goods]
    1. (by ship) 船运(運)货(貨)物 (chuányùn huòwù)
    2. (by train, plane etc) 运(運)输(輸)的货(貨)物 (yùnshū de huòwù)
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