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What does shipping mean?
shipping
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How do I use shipping in a sentence?
Simple sentences
I work for a shipping company.
The price includes shipping.
The low water levels have made shipping more difficult, with a complete ban imposed on boats on the Oder river in eastern Germany.
The low water levels have made shipping more difficult.
It must have been broken during shipping.
We offer free shipping.
Movie subtitles
By 1 506, the Portuguese had a near monopoly on shipping along the East African coast.
Nonsense. Your shipping costs would be twice our modest surcharge.
Isn't he interested in shipping, too?
Now, how can the shipping business go on if the owner's tie isn't straight?
So I buried my grief in the shipping business.
Dan Packard owns the best shipping line between here and the tropics. and Mr. Oliver Jordan is out on his ear.
No, I'm in the shipping business.
He's the shipping clerk at the tailor works.
That new bank in San Angelo is shipping a Iot of gold to Fort Worth.
Yes. Now, if a shipping clerk made a mistake, and sent a few wagonloads of trade goods through with the military supplies, they'd be traveling under the protection of a military pass, wouldn't they?
It'll put Shakespeare back with the shipping news.
We're shipping under sealed orders, but it's in the right direction.
I was shipping out when your buttons were safety pins.
Well, I figure on shipping out today or tomorrow.
Not at all. Now follow me, and I'll show you where we make our shipping cases.
Do the girls make the shipping cases too?
He's the shipping clerk at the tallow works.
There's talk of shipping those who have it to Lazarette Island where the lepers are.
You may know about shipping but when eleven of us have agreed.
You can fire me out of shipping but you aren't going to fire me off this jury because I don't work for you on this jury.
I wasn't ready to sign till I knew where you were shipping.
We're shipping her home tomorrow.
Shipping out tonight in the convoy, destination unknown.
Is it lack of food, is it your sturdy leadership, faulty ammunition, scarcity of shipping, lack of raw materials?
Listen, I was shipping out when your buttons were safety pins.
What are you hanging around this hall for if you ain't shipping?
We're looking over the manifests and shipping routes.
We're shipping out a lot of bullion.
Seventy hours from the kiln to shipping.
It'll put Shakespeare back with the shipping news. Quiet!
What're you hanging around the hiring hall for, if you ain't shipping out?
Look, I've been shipping out for six years.
So you're shipping out with the old man again, eh?
They're shipping him home.
His father is head of the shipping company.
I'll just be a shipping clerk.
Until then I'll take the shipping-clerk job.
News and current affairs
The assumption that the price of mailing a letter or shipping a package should remain constant throughout the year is ripe to be challenged.
Rather than shipping medicines to each country on the basis of estimated needs, donor agencies have set up a complicated purchasing system that has led to years of delay in getting medicines to the villages.
Undermining the sector's economic contribution further is the fact that global commodity prices, on which shipping rates depend, have lately been declining.
With China's wages soaring and rising oil prices driving up shipping costs, production in Mexico is suddenly looking much more attractive, even taking security concerns into account.
There is also the potential for disruption of energy production and shipping.
With increased help to African farmers to grow more food (as opposed to shipping food aid from the US), it would be possible to double or even triple crop yields.
From Kabul to Pristina, from Ramallah to Kinshasa, the EU is monitoring borders, overseeing peace agreements, training police forces, building up criminal justice systems and protecting shipping from pirate attacks.
Yet donors continue shipping expensive food aid while ignoring Malawi's desperate need to grow more food.
War would pose obvious and direct risks to shipping, notably shipping of oil from the Middle East.
Do countries around the world believe that they will be better off if the global trade system breaks down or international shipping lanes become less secure?
China is shipping 10,000 titles to the London Book Fair.
Even that understates the impact of energy on measured inflation, because lower gasoline prices reduce shipping costs, lowering a wide range of prices.
It was known that Gwadar, which overlooks Gulf shipping lanes and is near the Iran border, would eventually double as a naval base.
Lloyds provided insurance for the world's shipping.
That they had the audacity to demand progress toward the rule of law and social justice, as well as efforts to tame Greece's shipping magnates and its tax-avoiding clergy?
Greece's location, together with existing strengths such as tourism, shipping, renewable energy resources, and a pool of scientists at home and abroad, provides real potential for the country to grow.
The European Space Agency announced in September 2007 that satellite photos showed that the Northwest Passage appeared clear of ice for shipping for the first time ever, and that the Northeast Passage is almost clear.
Little wonder: stretching from Singapore to Taiwan, the South China Sea is the world's second-busiest sea-lane, with one-third of global shipping transiting through it.
Pollution from Hong Kong's own power generation plants, growing number of vehicles, and burgeoning shipping industry can certainly be reduced.
In response to an attack, Iran might well seek to obstruct shipping in the Persian Gulf, potentially triggering oil shortages and soaring prices.