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verb

(adverb) to depart or cause to depart by shipwe shipped out at dawn; they shipped out the new recruits

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Words nearby ship out

shipment, ship money, ship of state, ship of the line, ship of war, ship out, shipowner, shippable, shipper, shippie, shipping

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How to use ship out in a sentence

Iran would have to step down from enriching uranium to higher levels and to ship out some of its stockpile.
U.S. Hopes Latest Talks on Iran Nuclear Program Lead to New Diplomacy|Michael Adler|April 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST
These tasty turkeys ship out within two days in special polar ice packs.
The Best Turkeys for Thanksgiving|Jacquelynn D. Powers|November 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The deal was to ship out about 80 percent of the some 1,500 kilograms of low enriched uranium Iran has produced.
Iran's Big Test|Michael Adler|October 21, 2009|DAILY BEAST
They had said good-bye to her and God bless you, all of them, but they evidently meant to sing the ship out of port.
Hilda|Sarah Jeanette Duncan

It was as though her skipper placed all reliance in our skipper, looking to him to lead his ship out of peril should peril befall.
The Glory of The Coming|Irvin S. Cobb
Frantically Jimmy kicked at his rudder, shifted his ailerons, tried every trick he knew of to get the ship out of the spin.
The Flying Reporter|Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss
Then she went off, protesting it was bad luck to see a ship out of port, thoroughly pleased with having planted a last dart.
The Wasted Generation|Owen Johnson
The attraction turned the gyroscopes and threw the ship out of line, so we no longer know where the sun is.
Islands of Space|John W Campbell

Other Idioms and Phrases with ship out

ship out

Leave, especially for a distant place, as in The transport planes carried troops shipping out to the Mediterranean. Although this usage originally meant “depart by ship,” the expression is no longer limited to that mode of travel. [c. 1900]

Send, export, especially to a distant place, as in The factory shipped out many more orders last month. [Mid-1600s]

Quit a job or be fired; see shape up, def. 3.

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