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drop-shipping

drop-shipping is the alternative spelling of dropshipping.

Meaning of dropshipping

Noun

dropshipping (uncountable)

  1. (logistics) A retail model where goods are sent directly from the supplier to the customer.
    • By contrast, drop-shipping can be done from home without spending any money until orders come through. Proponents advocate using store credit cards with cash-back bonuses to sweeten the rewards. As one TikToker pushing the drop-shipping method said: “It costs you zero dollars to list a thousand...2022 August 8, Spencer Soper, “Amazon ‘drop-shipping’ resellers work a lollipop hustle that cost this family candy maker millions”, in Los Angeles Times, United States, archived from the original on...

Questions about drop-shipping

What is drop-shipping the alternative spelling of?
Drop-shipping is the alternative spelling of dropshipping.

Words near drop-shipping in the dictionary

  1. drop-set
  2. drop-sets
  3. drop-shaft
  4. drop-shafts
  5. drop-ship
  6. drop-shipping
  7. drop-spine
  8. drop-tongue
  9. drop-tongues
  10. drop-top
  11. drop-tops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drop-shipping (page history and authors); dropshipping (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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