shipment
US/ˈʃɪpmənt/
shipment noun: a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).
Noun
shipment (countable and uncountable, plural shipments)
- A load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).
- We're expecting another shipment of oranges tomorrow.
- The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday.2024 May 7, Oren Liebermann, “US paused shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over potential use in Rafah incursion”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2024
- The act of transporting goods.
- Shipment of hazardous waste on this route is strictly prohibited.
shipment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
shipment in Hindi
- load of goods
- खेप khep
shipment in Tamil
- கப்பல் கொள்ளளவு, அனுப்பீடு
shipment in Urdu
- کھیپ
shipment in Bengali
- জাহাজে প্রেরিত কাজ
More languagesFewer languages
- shipment in Kannada
- ಹಡಗು ಸರಕು, ರವಾನೆ ಸರಕು, ಸರಕು ಹೇರಾಟ, ಸರಕು ತುಂಬುವುದು
- shipment in Gujarati
- શિપમેન્ટ
- shipment in Nepali
- शिपमेन्ट
Examples of shipment in a sentence
- He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
- By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.
- The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.
Forms of shipment
| plural | shipments |
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Origin of shipment
From ship + -ment.
Words formed from shipment
Questions about shipment
- What does shipment mean?
- Shipment means a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).
- What is shipment in Hindi?
- Shipment in Hindi is खेप (khep). See Shipment meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is shipment?
- Shipment is a noun.
- How do you pronounce shipment?
- Shipment is pronounced /ˈʃɪpmənt/ (US).
- What is the plural of shipment?
- The plural of shipment is shipments.
Words near shipment in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: shipment (page history and authors); shipment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shipment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shipment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shipment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shipment (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipment (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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