shipping

B2 Topic:Actions & Processes

US /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/ See IPA manual

Freq #6911

Meanings

1

noun
The activity of transporting goods, especially by sea.

The company specializes in the shipping of fresh fruit.
2

noun
The cost of sending an item by post or carrier.

The price is twenty dollars, and shipping is included.
3

noun
Ships considered as a group.

The storm was dangerous to all shipping in the area.

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Synonyms

1 noun · the activity of... transportation

3 noun · ships considered as a group. cargo shipsmerchant marinemerchant vessels

Word family

Derived forms anti-shippingnonshippingpreshippingtrans-shipping

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shipping company
a business that transports goods, especially by sea

Noun + noun

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.

schipping Middle English scipian Old English

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# shipping

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/
**Frequency rank:** 6911

## 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
- Actions & Processes

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