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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shipment
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 container boxes of commercial ships.
unit
▪ And unit shipments grew 12 percent to 1. 3 million.
▪ Apple said its unit shipments had grown 12 percent in the December quarter over the same period a year ago.
■ VERB
receive
▪ Rosenthal said Barneys has received no domestic goods shipments since it filed for bankruptcy protection last Wednesday night.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Your order will be ready for shipment tomorrow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All three systems report purchase orders and / or shipments of hundreds of units that are not yet installed.
▪ And last week the company said shipments from Quincy Farms had declined 5 percent because of the cut.
▪ At the moment supervision of these shipments in most countries stops at the national border.
▪ He was preparing a similar excursion with a shipment of salt when the trouble started.
▪ Production and shipment has already begun, and the contracts extend through the first quarter of 1994.
▪ The new University of California campus and the Salk Institute were opening for business, with shipments of intellectuals arriving daily.
▪ The only conceivable opening for venality was in the private shipment of food supplies for profit.
▪ They, at least, had ensured that the cocaine shipment was safely on its way.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipment

Shipment \Ship"ment\, n.

  1. 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.

  2. That which is shipped.

    The question is, whether the share of M. in the shipment is exempted from condemnation by reason of his neutral domicle.
    --Story.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shipment

1802, "act of shipping;" 1861, "that which is shipped;" see ship (v.) + -ment.

Wiktionary
shipment

n. 1 a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship) 2 the act of transporting goods

WordNet
shipment
  1. n. goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, consignment]

  2. the act of sending off something [syn: dispatch, despatch]

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.