shipment
A load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).
Example
“We're expecting another shipment of oranges tomorrow.”
Other meanings
The act of transporting goods.
“Shipment of hazardous waste on this route is strictly prohibited.”
Synonyms
- cargo
- freight
- load
- loading
- payload
A kind of
- merchandise
Related words
- misshipment
- drop shipment
- multishipment
- nonshipment
- reshipment
- transshipment
- undershipment
- unshipment
- preshipment
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “shipment” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.