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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Just a day into the NBA offseason, Holiday was shipped out of Boston.
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Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Meanwhile, ports are about to start humming as companies rush to ship out inventory that had been held back during weeks of rising trade tension.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Now, the second-guessing is all that's left for fans who did not want to see Devers shipped out of town at midseason, and Breslow apparently isn't above it.
—Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
This section of the site can help you to take more than $800 off furniture, patio, rugs, bedding, and more for items that are in great shape, but might be shipped out of their original packaging or have minor dings and scratches.
—Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 June 2025
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Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Meanwhile, ports are about to start humming as companies rush to ship out inventory that had been held back during weeks of rising trade tension.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Now, the second-guessing is all that's left for fans who did not want to see Devers shipped out of town at midseason, and Breslow apparently isn't above it.
—Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
This section of the site can help you to take more than $800 off furniture, patio, rugs, bedding, and more for items that are in great shape, but might be shipped out of their original packaging or have minor dings and scratches.
—Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 June 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 Jul. 2025.
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