shipping

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The activity of transporting goods, especially by sea.

   The company specializes in the shipping of fresh fruit.

2. 2
   noun

   The cost of sending an item by post or carrier.

   The price is twenty dollars, and shipping is included.

3. 3
   noun

   Ships considered as a group.

   The storm was dangerous to all shipping in the area.

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.

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