## Meanings
1. The activity of transporting goods, especially by sea.
2. The cost of sending an item by post or carrier.
3. Ships considered as a group.

## Examples
- The company specializes in the shipping of fresh fruit.
- The price is twenty dollars, and shipping is included.
- The storm was dangerous to all shipping in the area.

## Derived Forms
- anti-shipping
- nonshipping
- preshipping
- trans-shipping

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: schipping
- Root: scipian

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Shipping is 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. Important forms in the word's history include Middle English schipping, Old English scipian. In current use it includes senses such as The activity of transporting goods, especially by sea and The cost of sending an item by post or carrier.

## Topics
- Money & Finance

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