shipping

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
  2. noun conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
  3. verb transport commercially

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.

In classic literature

Synonyms

transportation, transport

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