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
Manufacturers in Rochester could send goods to New York City and reship them to Cincinnati, back through Rochester, for less than the rate direct to their destination.
From The United States Since the Civil War by Charles Ramsdell Lingley
Going on board, Nat sent for the boatswain and gunners, and informed them that as he was to recommission the Spartane he was anxious to get as many of the hands to reship as possible.
From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Danube steamers are not unfrequently obliged to stop at Drenkova and reship their passengers into smaller boats.
From Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse
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
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
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
It is here at Bergen that the cargoes of fish caught on the coast at the far North and within the Arctic Circle are packed and reshipped to European ports.
From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou
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
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
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
Our vessels were prohibited from carrying imports from the West Indies to France, but evaded the law by bringing imports to this country and then reshipping them to France.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
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