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transhipping

transhipping is the present participle and gerund of tranship.

transhipping is the alternative form of transshipping.

Meaning of tranship

Verb

tranship (third-person singular simple present tranships, present participle transhipping, simple past and past participle transhipped)

  1. (transitive) To transfer goods from one ship or other conveyance to another.
  2. (intransitive) To be transferred from one ship or other conveyance to another.

Meaning of transshipping

Noun

transshipping (plural transshippings)

  1. The transfer of goods from one vessel or conveyance to another for onward shipment.

Forms of transhipping

pluraltranshippings

Questions about transhipping

What is transhipping the present participle and gerund of?
Transhipping is the present participle and gerund of tranship.

Words near transhipping in the dictionary

  1. transhipment
  2. transhipments
  3. transhipped
  4. transhipper
  5. transhippers
  6. transhipping
  7. transhippings
  8. tranships
  9. transhistorical
  10. transhistorically
  11. transhistoricity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: transhipping (page history and authors); tranship (page history and authors); transshipping (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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