shipper

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[ ship-er ]
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noun
  1. a person who ships goods or makes shipments.

Origin of shipper

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before 1100; 1745–55 for current sense; late Old English scipere sailor (not recorded in ME); see ship1, -er1

Other words from shipper

  • non·ship·per, noun

Words Nearby shipper

Other definitions for shipper (2 of 2)

shipper2
[ ship-er ]

nounSlang.
  1. a person who discusses, writes about, or hopes for a romantic relationship between fictional characters, as in fan fiction, or between famous people, whether or not the romance actually exists in the book, show, etc., or in real life: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger shippers.

Origin of shipper

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First recorded in 1995–2000; shortening of earlier relationshipper (in the same sense)

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How to use shipper in a sentence

  • This commodity rate, while special to meet a particular contingency, was open to any other shipper similarly circumstanced.

  • Rates are sometimes changed, not to suit the shipper but to serve the railway's interests.

  • And it would indeed follow, were it not that the incidence of the rate is rarely upon the actual shipper.

  • Or an excessive allowance might be made by the railway for some service or facility afforded by the shipper.

  • What the amount of such Underclassification of freight by collusion between agent and shipper was, can only be conjectured.

British Dictionary definitions for shipper

shipper

/ (ˈʃɪpə) /


noun
  1. a person or company in the business of shipping freight

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