shipment

English

Etymology

From ship +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪpmənt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

shipment (countable and uncountable, plural shipments)

a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship)
We're expecting another shipment of oranges tomorrow.
the act of transporting goods
Shipment of hazardous waste on this route is strictly prohibited.

Derived terms

preshipment

Translations

load of goods

Bulgarian: пра́тка (bg) f (prátka)
Czech: zásilka (cs) f
Danish: forsendelse, parti (da), sending, leverance
Dutch: scheepslading (nl) f
Finnish: kuljetus (fi), toimitus (fi), lähetys (fi)
French: cargaison (fr) f
Italian: carico (it) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forsendelse m
Plautdietsch: Lod f
Polish: przesyłka (pl) f, transport (pl) m
Portuguese: carregamento (pt) m
Russian: отпра́вка (ru) f (otprávka), отгру́зка (ru) f (otgrúzka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̀шӣљка f

Roman: pòšīljka (sh) f
Slovak: zásielka f
Spanish: cargamento (es) m, envío (es) m, encargo (es) m
Swedish: försändelse (sv) c
Turkish: parti (tr)

the act of transporting goods

Bulgarian: изпра́щане n (izpráštane)
Dutch: verscheping, (het) verschepen (nl) n
Finnish: kuljetus (fi), kuljettaminen (fi)
German: Transport (de) m, Lieferung (de) f
Russian: перево́зка (ru) f (perevózka), грузоперево́зка (ru) f (gruzoperevózka)
Spanish: transporte (es) m, envío (es) m
Turkish: taşınma (tr)

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