ship out
phrasal verb
shipped out; shipping out; ships out
: to leave one place and go to another for military duties
The troops will be shipping out next month.
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Behind us lie six months of intense work to get this ship out of lay-up, to train and to get to sea.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
Last week, the Patriots got a head start on the deadline by trading safety Kyle Dugger to Pittsburgh and defensive lineman Keion White to the 49ers in a pair of pick-swap deals that shipped out a seventh-round pick with each player and netted sixth-rounders in return.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
The vials are then inspected using flashes of light, stamped, boxed up and shipped out via a warehouse.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Picking and packing orders to ship out to people’s homes cannot match the profit margins of having customers browse pallets in a warehouse.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
Last week, the Patriots got a head start on the deadline by trading safety Kyle Dugger to Pittsburgh and defensive lineman Keion White to the 49ers in a pair of pick-swap deals that shipped out a seventh-round pick with each player and netted sixth-rounders in return.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 5 Nov. 2025
The vials are then inspected using flashes of light, stamped, boxed up and shipped out via a warehouse.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Picking and packing orders to ship out to people’s homes cannot match the profit margins of having customers browse pallets in a warehouse.
—Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ship out
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“Ship out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ship%20out. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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