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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shipper
noun
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▪ Bush also proposed raising $ 75 million with new user fees for hazardous material shippers and owners of pipelines and railroads.
▪ Shellfish shippers are certified and each package of shellfish should bear the certificate number of the shipper.
▪ The chief need of large shippers and carriers is' to process information for the flow of goods.
▪ The Fremont plant makes the loose fill for the packing materials and fabricates the wine shippers and pouches for electronic merchandise.
▪ The protection given by the Harter Act to shippers and consignees benefited banks and secured creditors.
▪ Their customers, the shippers and receivers, want their goods on demand.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipper

Shipper \Ship"per\, n. [See Ship, n., and cf. Skipper.] One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.

Wiktionary
shipper

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context archaic English) A seaman; mariner; skipper. 2 The person or organization that ships (sends) something. Etymology 2

n. (context fandom slang English) One involved in shipping (fan fiction based on romantic relationships between characters).

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WordNet
shipper

  1. n. someone who ships goods

  2. a company in the business of shipping freight

Wikipedia
Shipper

shipper may refer to:

  • Someone who sends goods for shipment, by packaging, labeling, and arranging for transit, or who coordinates the transport of goods
  • Shipping (fandom), someone who supports a fictional romantic relationship, usually on the Internet

Usage examples of "shipper".

Jalkan, the big Shipper fullback, carried the ball through the middle on the first play.

Hurling every ounce of speed he had, he threw himself at the ball, missed, it hit the ground and was recovered by the Shipper tailback.

Then a Shipper end spilled through and squelched a spinner, and the Tigers had to kick.

Manifest, COD charges and destination are set by the shipper and then locked when the PA verifies and seals the shipment.

Port Authority was physically present at all the system endpoints, and that no shipper would refuse its own refused container.

It listed thirty-six tranship boxes that had passed through 19J2 at some point, along with their points of origin, shipper, receiver and supposed manifest.

Daily Shipper, Jerry sat down on the divan and let his half-closed eyes study the painting of the warlike stage set.

Daily Shipper which everyone else ignored on the table in the club reading room.

Tossing the Daily Shipper back where it belonged, Cranston drew an envelope from his pocket and began to run through a batch of clippings.

First he phoned the Shipper personally, whereas if he had been under threat, he would probably have been forced to dictate a letter and sign it.

Anybody familiar with the ways of steamships, except perhaps the dull-minded editor of the Daily Shipper, would know that whistles along the waterfront did not operate in dots and dashes like the usual code.

Daily Shipper, or rather upon whether anybody read that column closely enough to catch its hidden meaning.

They are in direct touch with the manufacturers and merchants in their respective communities, they know the present difficulties of shipping and they have the facilities for most quickly and systematically putting the shipper in touch with the man who has the facility for haulage.

If necessary or desirable, a small charge can be made to the truck owner or the shipper for the service to cover whatever expense may be involved in starting and maintaining the bureau.

It can be picked up at the door of the shipper and delivered at the door of the consignee, entailing only two handlings.