shipment
noun
an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
shipments
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pluralof shipment.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Mejuri would also face import taxes on those costlier shipments to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Derek Swanson, who imports and resells kitchen knives from Japan, paid tariffs on shipments through UPS, FedEx and DHL.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Commerce Department doesn’t require an export license to ship this type of hardware to those two countries, but does for shipments to China.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine have blocked shipments from regions that normally supply almost a third of the world’s diesel exports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
There they do the hard manual labor of loading and unloading shipments onto trucks.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
