Also Inflected form of ship
shipping
ship·ping
noun
1.
the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials
2.
conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
Origin
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.
Phrases
- merchant shipping
- shipping agent
- shipping and handling
- shipping company
- shipping container
- shipping fever
- shipping forecast
- shipping lane
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