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Package that's en route
Answer for the clue "Package that's en route ", 8 letters:
shipment
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Word definitions for shipment in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo , lading , freight , load , loading , payload , consignment ] the act of sending off something [syn: dispatch , despatch ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1802, "act of shipping;" 1861, "that which is shipped;" see ship (v.) + -ment .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN drug ▪ The convictions capped a two-year federal investigation that showed the ex-officers accepted payoffs for protecting the drug shipments . ▪ The most difficult drug shipments to detect are those secreted in the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipment \Ship"ment\, n. The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West. That which is shipped. The question is, whether the share of M. in the shipment is exempted from condemnation ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship) 2 the act of transporting goods
Usage examples of shipment.
Coalition re-routed a shipment of Jovian gas from Yale Astrophysics Labs to our massie.
But the last food shipment had been saved, the outer system agri automation restarted, and there was enough food for the two billion survivors on Tarelsk.
The Saudis mobilized their armed forces, began training volunteers, broke off diplomatic relations with Britain and France, banned the refueling of their ships in Saudi ports, and embargoed oil shipments to both countries.
In 1884 the exportation or shipment in interstate commerce of livestock having any infectious disease was forbidden.
I think about shipments of lumber arriving in Moren, and how we are to pay the waiting tradesmen.
Politically and militarily things are certainly going their way, thanks in no small measure to some incredibly stupid moves by us -- such as no-win war policies, gigantic loans and food shipments -- allowing them both to feed their people and to outspend us on defense.
Each outfit exchanged slips based on the round-up tally with every other brand and so could show bill of sale for off-brand stuff in their beef shipments or for any rebrands on the range.
Say, even, that we succeeded in that, and that the store of powder we destroyed has since been replenished by shipments from Holland.
Hedwin might have looked over the shipments from Mexico, while Salter had such opportunity upon their arrival in New Orleans.
Manifest, COD charges and destination are set by the shipper and then locked when the PA verifies and seals the shipment.
It also had its own quaestor, who was responsible for overseeing the unloading and onward shipment of the grain supply, and responsible too for the levying of all customs and excise duties.
At the next table four men discussed a shipment of gypsum, speaking the flat language of industrial cultures, a deflated tone, unmodulated, fixed in its stale plane.
Khoral goes, all I have to do is delay wootz shipments whenever he makes annexation noises.
Other letters were taken up with businesslike requests for trade goods, as Adams was again supplying her with regular shipments.
Bin Ladin to Afghanistan, Banshiri had remained in Kenya to oversee the training and weapons shipments of the cell set up some four years earlier.