shipping
Syllables: ship·ping/ˈʃɪpɪŋ/
shipping noun: the transportation of goods. Also the present participle and gerund of ship.
Noun (1)
shipping (countable and uncountable, plural shippings)
- The transportation of goods.
- 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.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52
- The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively.
- Our overplus of shipping will we burn; / And, with the rest full-mann’d, from the head of Actium / Beat the approaching Caesar.c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene 7
- […] the Advantage appeared greatly on their Side, in Numbers of Shipping, and of Men;1724, Daniel Defoe, A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, Introduction, page 23
- Passage or transport on a ship.
- The cost of sending an item or package using postal or carrier services.
- The shipping is included in the quoted price.
- Navigation.
- God send 'em good shipping.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
Noun (2)
shipping (uncountable)
Also used as
shipping is also the present participle and gerund of ship.
shipping meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
shipping in Hindi
- शिपिंग
shipping in Tamil
- கப்பல் போக்குவரத்து, ஷிப்பிங்
shipping in Marathi
- शिपिंग
shipping in Urdu
- شپنگ
More languagesFewer languages
- shipping in Bengali
- শিপিং
- shipping in Telugu
- షిప్పింగ్
- shipping in Malayalam
- ഷിപ്പിംഗ്, ഷിപ്പിങ്
- shipping in Kannada
- ಶಿಪ್ಪಿಂಗ್
- shipping in Punjabi
- ਸ਼ਿਪਿੰਗ
- shipping in Gujarati
- શિપિંગ
- shipping in Odia
- ଶିପିଂ, ସିପିଂ
- shipping in Nepali
- ढुवानी
Examples of shipping in a sentence
- My first afternoon, on reaching New Bedford, was spent in visiting the wharves and viewing the shipping.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 22, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, page 345:
- […] I clearly remember a castle on the shores of the lagoon, where gondolas appeared amid larger shipping, which seemed to be plying in and out of Naples […]1970, Robertson Davies, chapter 2, in Fifth Business, Toronto: Macmillan, page 107:
Forms of shipping
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Origin of shipping
From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship + -ing.
From ship + -ing.
Clipping of relationshipping.
Words formed from shipping
Phrases with shipping
- air shipping
- shipping out
- drop shipping
- shipping over
- took shipping
- 'bout shipping
- about shipping
- shipping a sea
- shipping lanes
- taken shipping
- takes shipping
- shipping agents
6 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with shipping
Questions about shipping
- What does shipping mean?
- Shipping means the transportation of goods.
- What is shipping in Hindi?
- Shipping in Hindi is शिपिंग. See Shipping meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use shipping in a sentence?
- My first afternoon, on reaching New Bedford, was spent in visiting the wharves and viewing the shipping.
- What part of speech is shipping?
- Shipping is a noun.
- How do you pronounce shipping?
- Shipping is pronounced /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of shipping?
- The plural of shipping is shippings.
Words near shipping in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shipping (page history and authors); shipping (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipping (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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