reship
Americanverb (used without object)
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to go on a ship again.
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(of a member of a ship's crew) to sign up for another voyage.
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The Indeed website warns: “During the holiday season, scammers might also seek gift wrappers. In this variation of the reshipping scam, you’d receive a package at your home, gift wrap it and then reship it.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
It ricocheted, producing so many Amazon orders that Hyperion had to reship hardcovers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2010
It was considered an advantage to reship cotton because moving it from one boat to another knocked the mud off the bales.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Morgan, Wallace
The Danube steamers are not unfrequently obliged to stop at Drenkova and reship their passengers into smaller boats.
From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.
"Her cap'n told me she carried more copper than one submarine could reship, so they 'ad to wait for another, as they didn't want to throw no copper away."
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.
Oil is more complicated because it can be reshipped, blended, refined or relabeled to conceal its Russian origin.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
The oil embargo will present still more difficulties: Oil can be reshipped, blended, refined or relabeled to conceal its Russian origin.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
For the second sale, they falsely restamped and reshipped metal they had agreed to replace.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 29, 2019
The daughter then reshipped the unopened package from South Korea to Japan, along with some household goods.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2015
They had obtained some $30,000 worth of goods from Saxony between October, 1915, and January, 1916, the consignments evading the blockade and reaching New York, whence they were reshipped to England.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
Such “jobs” range from reshipping products to selling them to friends and require applicants to pay for certifications, software or starter kits.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
Across Michigan, the Better Business Bureau has received 10 reports of reshipping employment scams in the past six months.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
With the trade barrier coming down, Catoctin Creek Distillery in Virginia is looking to start reshipping its rye whiskey to EU markets, said Scott Harris, the distillery’s co-founder and general manager.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2021
Though Spain forbade direct foreign exports to its colonies, merchants evaded the barrier by bringing foreign goods to Spain before reshipping them to America.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The reshipping of the cable at Plymouth occupied the whole month of April and part of May.
From The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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