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
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 Wallace Morgan
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 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
Coffee to be reshipped, either by lighter or rail, is heaped in piles by itself until loaded on to the lighters or freight cars.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
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
Consumer watchdogs are warning of an uptick in jobs scams, such as reshipping scams, as unemployed workers try to find jobs from home during the pandemic.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 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 Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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