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)

2. The transportation of goods.

   Coordinate terms: carriage, haulage

   • 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.

4. The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively.

   Coordinate terms: fleet, navy

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra‎^[1], 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^[2], London: T. Warner, Introduction, page 23:

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

   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 22, in My Bondage and My Freedom‎^[3], New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, page 345:

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

   • 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:

     Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.

   • 1970, Robertson Davies, chapter 2, in Fifth Business‎^[4], Toronto: Macmillan, page 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 […]

6. Passage or transport on a ship.

   Coordinate term: voyage

8. The cost of sending an item or package via postal or carrier services.

   Coordinate term: postage

   The shipping is included in the quoted price.

10. Navigation.
    • c. 1590–1592 (date written), 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, [Act V, scene i]:

      God send 'em good shipping.

12. (fandom slang) The desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters, to be in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Derived terms

• anti-shipping
• shipping agent
• shipping and handling
• shipping company
• shipping container
• shipping fever
• shipping forecast
• shipping lane
• shipping master
• short-sea shipping
• take shipping
• trans-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), toimitus (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)
• Serbo-Croatian: dostava (sh) f, prijevoz (sh) m, isporuka (sh) f, otprema (sh) f
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian: plovidba (sh) f, brodarenje n

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
• Serbo-Croatian: dostavnina (sh) f, podvoz (sh) m, podvoznina (sh) f
• 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 and gerund of ship