shipment
Americannoun
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shipments
plural
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an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
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a quantity of freight or cargo shipped at one time.
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something that is shipped.
- Synonyms:
- consignment
noun
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goods shipped together as part of the same lot
a shipment of grain
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( as modifier )
a shipment schedule
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the act of shipping cargo
Synonym Usage
See freight.
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Origin of shipment
Example Sentences
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The first shipment under the agreement will leave Russia "in two to three days", Putin said during the meeting, as quoted by state news agency TASS.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
I don’t expect restaurant owners to read this and order a fresh shipment of vibrating pucks.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
“However, neither company called it out as a material factor in their shipment growth during the course of the year,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
The shipment of more than 100 containers holding 2,100 tonnes of toxic waste was sent back to Albania.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
There’s one unequivocal piece of good news: the crate of two dozen paintings that Vincent had sent three weeks earlier, the first shipment from Arles, finally arrives in Paris.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
Middle East oil shipments have recently recovered above prewar levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
And the UK increasingly relies on shipments of LNG from the US, which accounted for a quarter of all natural gas imports in 2025, external.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
However, refined-product exports have recovered more slowly than crude shipments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Overall shipments ticked up 0.6%, driven by a 2.7% increase in smoke-free products..
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
At present, as we have seen, more than 99 per cent of the interstate food shipments slip by without inspection.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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