ship out
Britishverb
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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]
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Send, export, especially to a distant place, as in The factory shipped out many more orders last month . [Mid-1600s]
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Quit a job or be fired; see shape up , def. 3.
Example Sentences
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From there he would ship out to China for four months—an unusually short trip for such a long journey, which I hoped had nothing to do with me.
From Literature
“I was going to be the first man in my family to go to war. My grandfather in the Civil War—he had paid a replacement to go in his stead, and my father avoided the Spanish-American War. I was going to be the hero. So the week before I was supposed to ship out to Northern Africa, my father decided we should have a send-off. Three generations of my family on my grandfather’s estate, hunting pheasants. Up before dawn, racing around in tweed.”
From Literature
“Be prepared to ship out by tomorrow morning, oh-five-hundred hours.”
From Literature
There are alternative means to ship out helium.
From MarketWatch
His regular customers did not mention anything — not a surprise from clientele who know not to share classified information — but Esparza has been around long enough to sense that the Marines who were coming in to replace gear like sleeping bags and warm clothing were preparing to ship out.
From Los Angeles Times
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