shipment
nounUS /ˈʃɪpmənt/
Etymology From ship + -ment.
1
A load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).
- We're expecting another shipment of oranges tomorrow.
- The United States paused a shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over their potential use in a Rafah incursion, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday.2024 May 7, Oren Liebermann, “US paused shipment of bombs to Israel amid concerns over potential use in Rafah incursion”, in CNN:
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- The de minimis exemption, as it’s known, allowed shipments of goods worth $800 or less to come into the United States duty-free, often more or less skipping time-consuming inspections and paperwork.2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN:
2
The act of transporting goods.
- Shipment of hazardous waste on this route is strictly prohibited.
- Derived terms
- drop shipment, misshipment, multishipment, nonshipment, preshipment, reshipment, transshipment, undershipment, unshipment