noun
Etymology
Origin of shipload
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Jump to 2019, when a shipload of archaeologists, ice experts, engineers and masters of several other disciplines set out to find the Endurance.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
The following year, a consortium of Canadian farmers arranged to import a shipload of Russian fertilizer through Churchill’s port, saving about 10 percent on the standard cost.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
With Southern resentment of federal control near a peak, Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the ocean, said historian Natalie S. Robertson.
From Fox News ● Feb. 8, 2019
Fillmore later joined the Whig Party at a time of mounting hostility to refugees from famine, rebellion and tyranny who were arriving by the shipload at the gates of the New World.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2018
A shipload of sick people was coming upriver.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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