shipping

English

From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from Middle English schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship +‎ -ing.

shipping (countable and uncountable, plural shippings)

The transportation of goods.
- 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
  From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry.
Passage or transport on a ship.
The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.
Navigation.
- Shakespeare
  God send 'em good shipping.

transportation of goods

body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry

passage or transport on a ship

Finnish: laivamatka (fi) (passage), laivakuljetus (fi) (transport), laivaus (fi)

cost of sending goods

Czech: doprava (cs) f
French: frais de port (fr) m, frais de transport m, transport (fr) m, frais de livraison m

From ship +‎ -ing.

shipping

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