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short-ship

short-ship verb: to ship a smaller quantity of (goods) than the customer ordered.

Verb

short-ship (third-person singular simple present short-ships, present participle short-shipping, simple past and past participle short-shipped)

  1. (transitive) To ship a smaller quantity of (goods) than the customer ordered.
    • A variation of this is to short-ship goods to customers. A short shipment is when items are listed in the shipping document but not included in the shipment and not received by the recipient.2014, Sunder Gee, Fraud and Fraud Detection, page 236

Forms of short-ship

third-person singular presentshort-ships
present participleshort-shipping
past participleshort-shipped
pastshort-shipped

Questions about short-ship

What does short-ship mean?
Short-ship means to ship a smaller quantity of (goods) than the customer ordered.
What part of speech is short-ship?
Short-ship is a verb.
What is the past tense of short-ship?
The past tense of short-ship is short-shipped.

Words near short-ship in the dictionary

  1. short-sells
  2. short-sheet
  3. short-sheeted
  4. short-sheeting
  5. short-sheets
  6. short-ship
  7. short-short stories
  8. short-short story
  9. short-shorts
  10. short-sighted
  11. short-sightedly

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