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misshipping

misshipping is the present participle and gerund of misship.

Meaning of misship

Verb

misship (third-person singular simple present misships, present participle misshipping, simple past and past participle misshipped)

  1. To ship incorrectly, such as to the wrong location or at the wrong time.
    • Agent Garretson had suggested to Yoshida that he could arrange for an IBM employee to misship a kit, and if Yoshida could find a buyer he would give Yoshida a sizable share of the profits.1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Unfair Foreign Trade Practices, page 33

Questions about misshipping

What is misshipping the present participle and gerund of?
Misshipping is the present participle and gerund of misship.

Words near misshipping in the dictionary

  1. misshifts
  2. misship
  3. misshipment
  4. misshipments
  5. misshipped
  6. misshipping
  7. misships
  8. misshod
  9. misshoe
  10. misshoed
  11. misshoeing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misshipping (page history and authors); misship (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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