shipment

noun

Definition of shipmentnext
as in cargo

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Recent Examples of shipment Industry shipment data highlights the widening gap between Chinese and US developers. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026 Altana’s solution pulls together shipment records, public trade data and other information companies submit about their own suppliers to trace the origin of a product’s materials. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 July 2026 Famously, having read an interview in which Keegan professed to missing British cereal, the club’s fans organised and paid for a shipment of Shredded Wheat. — James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026 The preliminary deal immediately reopened the strait, a critical waterway for the shipment of oil, and established a ceasefire for 60 days. — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 15 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for shipment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipment
  1. cargo
  2. package
  3. freight
  4. loading
  5. load
  6. bale
  7. packet
  8. lading
Noun
  • Flights at Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport, a major cargo hub, were disrupted during the night after a sighting of a flying object was reported and another object was found near a runway, police said Wednesday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • How much information would Iran demand about ships’ cargoes and destinations?
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of cargo
Noun
  • Check the website for shipping costs, but customers in the US, the UK and EU can get this sizeable package for free.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Investigators believe the bomb was detonated remotely, and a preliminary account indicates that the woman most likely did not know what the package contained, Kommersant reported.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of package
Noun
  • Its only link to the province’s highways is a 5-hour train ride that shuttles passengers, freight, and vehicles through the Boreal forest.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026
  • From the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea to the Black Sea, attacks on commercial vessels have disrupted trade, raised insurance and freight costs, and forced shipping companies to reconsider routes once treated as dependable.
    — Chloe Taylor,Sam Meredith,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 30 July 2026
Definition of freight
Noun
  • To power autonomous trailer loading, Foresight reasons across three spatial dimensions and time to optimize how packages are placed for space, stability and speed across a wide range of operating conditions.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Installation and maintenance, loading and stocking and construction jobs, have also failed to recover.
    — Irina Anghel, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of loading
Noun
  • River levels are so low that commercial ships have had to reduce their loads by as much as 80% to avoid running aground.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Airlines may have to lighten the load by removing passengers or cargo, or carrying less fuel.
    — Rio Yamat, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of load
Noun
  • There were no revisions exceeding 100,000 bales among importing or exporting countries for 2026/27.
    — SJ Guest Editorial, Footwear News, 28 July 2026
  • Insist on real-time visibility before automation, on plant-wide telemetry before line-level robots and on outcomes measured in recovered tons and bale quality—not in machine uptime.
    — R. Paul Singh, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of bale
Noun
  • The packets signal to beetles that the tree is already occupied, encouraging them to move elsewhere.
    — Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • By generating intelligent metadata from packets, organizations turn the richest source of network evidence into facts that both AI and humans can use.
    — Bruce Kelley, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of packet
Noun
  • Cargill built a large soybean-lading facility at Santarem, some 500 miles up the Amazon.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026
  • One example can be as simple as shipments that are missing bills of lading or origin documents.
    — Forbes, Forbes, 1 June 2021
Definition of lading

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