shipper

¹

[ ship-er ]

noun

1. a person who ships goods or makes shipments.

shipper

²

[ ship-er ]

noun

, Slang.

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.

shipper

/ ˈʃɪpə /

noun

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

Other Words From

• non·shipper noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of shipper¹

before 1100; 1745–55 for current sense; late Old English scipere sailor (not recorded in ME); ship ¹, -er ¹

Origin of shipper²

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

Example Sentences

Ricky Hayes is the Co-Founder and Head of Marketing at Debutify – free Shopify theme, helping drop shippers build high-converting stores in minutes.

From Search Engine Watch

The cooling system for Pfizer’s vaccine must be refreshed with dry ice every five days for up to 30 days, and it’s recommended that its thermal shipper not be opened more than twice a day—and even then, only for one minute at a time.

From Fortune

However, there will be new requirements at the border, adding costs and hurdles for shippers.

From Fortune

Contract farmers, hired to grow a crop for someone else for a per-acre fee, might never learn whether a given harvest was a “good” or a “bad” one, representing a profit or a loss for the shipper that hired them.

From MIT Technology Review

Since the pandemic started, shippers have been beefing up their operations, while retailers have been remaking how they process orders, all in preparation for a holiday season like nothing they have ever seen before.

From Fortune

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• carrier
• exporter
• merchant
• transporter