tranship
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- transhipment noun
- transhipper noun
Example Sentences
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Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Cura�ao, are some 40 free ports, walled off on the seaward side of customs barriers, where shippers can unload, store and tranship goods without red tape.
From Time Magazine Archive
Go anyplace that had a big spaceport, and manage to tranship out in secret.
From World Beyond Pluto by Marlowe, Stephen
Parallel to him were lines of men carrying out cargo to the lighters which would tranship it to the Parakeet, and Kettle looked upon these with a fine complacency.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Wood, Stanley L.
The side tracks were full of loaded freight, and cars waiting to tranship at the wharf, the steamer which left Winnipeg two days before we did having only just arrived.
From A Trip to Manitoba by FitzGibbon, Mary
And perhaps, from Tokyo or Shanghai it would be possible to tranship into some other line and drip down to the islands of the South Pacific.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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