shipping

shipping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ

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Etymology 1

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.

Noun

shipping (countable and uncountable, plural shippings)

1. The transportation of goods.
   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. […]   But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.

2. The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene 7,

     Our overplus of shipping will we burn; / And, with the rest full-mann’d, from the head of Actium / Beat the approaching Caesar.

   • 1724, Daniel Defoe, A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, Introduction, p. 23,

     […] the Advantage appeared greatly on their Side, in Numbers of Shipping, and of Men;

   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, Chapter 22, p. 345,

     My first afternoon, on reaching New Bedford, was spent in visiting the wharves and viewing the shipping.

   • 1970, Robertson Davies, Fifth Business, Toronto: Macmillan, Chapter 2, p. 107,

     […] I clearly remember a castle on the shores of the lagoon, where gondolas appeared amid larger shipping, which seemed to be plying in and out of Naples […]

3. Passage or transport on a ship.
4. The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.

   The shipping is included in the quoted price.

5. Navigation.
   • c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     God send 'em good shipping.

Derived terms

• shipping lane
• short-sea shipping
• take shipping

Translations

transportation of goods

Bulgarian: доставка (bg) (dostavka), доставяне (bg) (dostavjane) Catalan: enviament (ca) m, transport (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 運輸／运输 (zh) (yùnshū), 航運／航运 (zh) (hángyùn) Czech: přeprava (cs) f Dutch: verzending (nl) Finnish: kuljetus (fi) French: expédition (fr) f, envoi (fr) m Galician: envío m German: Schifffahrt (de) f Hungarian: szállítás (hu) Irish: seoladh m Latin: nāviculāria f Macedonian: до́става f (dóstava), до́ставка f (dóstavka), доставу́вање n (dostavúvanje), пре́воз m (prévoz) Portuguese: remessa (pt) f, transporte (pt) m, envio (pt) m Russian: перево́зка (ru) f (perevózka), доста́вка (ru) f (dostávka), отпра́вка (ru) f (otprávka) Spanish: envío (es) m, transporte (es) m Swedish: frakt (sv)

body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry

Bulgarian: флот m (flot) Chinese: Mandarin: 船舶 (zh) (chuánbó) Finnish: laivasto (fi) Irish: loingeas m Macedonian: фло́та f (flóta) Portuguese: frota (pt) f Scottish Gaelic: luingeas m or f

passage or transport on a ship

Finnish: laivamatka (fi) (passage), laivakuljetus (fi) (transport), laivaus (fi) Irish: loingseoireacht f Macedonian: брода́рење n (brodárenje), пло́видба f (plóvidba)

cost of sending goods

Bulgarian: навло n (navlo) Catalan: despeses d'enviament f pl, despeses de transport f pl Czech: doprava (cs) f Danish: forsendelsesomkostninger c pl French: frais de port (fr) m, frais de transport m, transport (fr) m, frais de livraison m Galician: gastos de envío m pl German: Versandkosten (de) pl or f, Transportkosten (de) pl or f Greek: έξοδα αποστολής n pl (éxoda apostolís) Hungarian: szállítási költség Irish: iompar m, seachadadh m Italian: spese di spedizione f Macedonian: по́двоз m (pódvoz) Norwegian: fraktutgifter Portuguese: taxas de envio f pl Spanish: gastos de envío m pl, gastos de transporte m pl Swedish: fraktkostnad (sv) Welsh: cludiant m

Etymology 2

From ship +‎ -ing.

Verb

shipping

1. present participle of ship