Definition for Shipping:

• the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

Synonyms for Shipping:

• n.

  •
  • anchor,
  • beach,
  • the America's Cup,
  • berth,
  • Ahoy,
  • the Admiral's Cup,
  • boater,
  • bail out,
  • canoe.
  •
  • carrier,
  • consignment,
  • bill of entry,
  • delivery,
  • bill of lading,
  • dock.
  •cargo ships (noun)
  • cargo ships.
  •cartage (noun)
  • baggage,
  • carriage,
  • cartage,
  • luggage,
  • passage,
  • cargo,
  • forwarding.
  •craft (noun)
  • aircraft,
  • barge,
  • air ship,
  • blimp,
  • vessel,
  • spacecraft,
  • boat,
  • airplane,
  • bottom.
  •freight (noun)
  • bulk,
  • burden,
  • bales,
  • merchandise,
  • pack,
  • wares,
  • contents,
  • load,
  • packages,
  • weight,
  • ballast.
  •shipment (noun)
  • purchase,
  • goods.
  •shipping (noun)
  • merchant vessels,
  • passenger,
  • Freighting,
  • ship,
  • merchant marine,
  • steam.
  •transport (noun)
  • carting,
  • movement,
  • moving,
  • transit,
  • vehicle,
  • lift,
  • removal.

• v.

  •boating (verb)
  • ferrying,
  • rowing,
  • sailing,
  • Canoeing,
  • boating.
  •ship (verb)
  • route,
  • haul,
  • consign,
  • forward,
  • remit,
  • shift,
  • transmit,
  • drop,
  • address,
  • embark,
  • direct,
  • go aboard,
  • smuggle,
  • move,
  • transfer,
  • put on board,
  • dispatch,
  • ship out.
  •shipping (verb)
  • hauling,
  • trucking,
  • Transporting,
  • Carrying,
  • conveying,
  • Transferring.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • distribution.
  •exportation
  • export.
  •fetching
  • bringing.

Paraphrases for Shipping:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    trucking.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    ship-to, consignment.
  • Proper noun, singular
    shipowners, seaports, transfers, corporations, hits, Les, sending, goods, freight, Shipped, ship-to, forwarding, consignment, consignments, cargo, Transporting, expedition, Expeditions, vessels.
  • Noun, plural
    postings, loadings, Cargoes, mailings, Remittances, parcels, Referrals, consignments.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    seafaring, shipowner, loading, Les, trans-shipment, seagoing, goods, freight, boarding, ship-, freighter, ship-to, packing, forwarding, consignment, cargo, Transporting, postage, haulage, radionavigation, consignor.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    postprocessing, commercialising, commercializing, despatching, Dispensing, available, supplying, Delivering, Deploying, processing, transmitting, exporting, Introducing, Addressing, contributing, speaking, Originating, passing, Committing, posting, Receiving, arriving, entraining, writing, flying, bringing, spend, conducting, losing, marketing, commuting, Remitting, giving, belonging, Extending, calling, returning, seafaring, covering, wearing, getting, cutting, loading, seagoing, boarding, forwarding.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    shipment, sending, maritime.
  • Proper noun, singular
    ship, Ships, shipment, shipments, navigation, shipbuilding, transportation, transport, transports, maritime, Dispatching.
  • Noun, plural
    shipments.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    ship, shipment, navigation, shipbuilding, embarkation, sending, shipper, transportation, transport, maritime, expedition, Dispatching.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Transferring, sending, freight, Transporting, Dispatching.

Shipping Sentence Examples:

• Insist on his getting in touch with Glasgow - it's there, without doubt, that Lady Carstairs went off, and where Sir Gilbert would meet her; let him start inquiries about the shipping offices and the like.

• But we don't see half the shipping from here - this is only one side of the city - there is much more on the other.

Homophones for Shipping:

• scavenge, sphinx, spinning, spang, spinoza, sawbones, shebang, spinacia, spinous, spongy, sycophancy, sopping, sapience, savings, spumous, Sophonias, scoffing, sea pink, Spanish Oak, spheniscus, spunky, spinach, saving, swabbing, seven seas, submucosa, supping, sweeping, sac fungus, shabbiness, spying, subbing, shaping, sevens, saponaceous, safeness, seeping, Soapiness, sapiens, sex offense, shopping, soupiness, spunk, spanish, Spininess, spank, sponge cake, sobbing, spaying, spinus, sixpence, sponge, shaving, spinose, suspense, suaveness, successiveness, spiffing.

Holonyms for Shipping:

• n.

  • act
    commercialism, mercantilism, commerce.

Hypernym for Shipping:

• n.

  • act
    ferry, expressage, freight, trucking, freightage, ferrying, air transport, hauling, express, air transportation, navigation, Truckage.

Hyponym for Shipping:

• n.

  • act
    business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business.