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ship·per

(shĭp′ər)

One that consigns or receives goods for transportation.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

shipper

(ˈʃɪpə)

(Professions) a person or company in the business of shipping freight

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ship•per

(ˈʃɪp ər)

n.

a person who makes shipments.

[1745–55]

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Noun	1.	shipper - someone who ships goods bourgeois, businessperson - a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise consigner, consignor - the person who delivers over or commits merchandise
	2.	shipper - a company in the business of shipping freight company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage"

Translations

مُرْسِل البَضائِع، شاحِن

lodní dopravce

speditør

Verschiffer

expéditeur

hajófuvarozó

flutningamiîlari

spedizioniere

speditør utskiper

lodný dopravca

nakliyeci

发货人托运人

shipper

[ˈʃɪpəʳ] N (= company) → empresa f naviera

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

shipper

[ˈʃɪpə^r] n (= company) → affréteur m, expéditeur m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

shipper

n (= company) → Speditionsfirma f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

shipper

[ˈʃɪpəʳ] n → spedizioniere m (marittimo)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ship

(ʃip) noun

1. a large boat. The ship sank and all the passengers and crew were drowned.

2. any of certain types of transport that fly. a spaceship.

verb – past tense, past participle shipped –

to send or transport by ship. The books were shipped to Australia.

ˈshipment noun

1. a load of goods sent by sea. a shipment of wine from Portugal.

2. the sending of goods by sea.

ˈshipper noun

a person who arranges for goods to be shipped. a firm of shippers.

ˈshipping noun

ships taken as a whole. The harbour was full of shipping.

ˈship-broker noun

1. an agent whose job is to buy or sell ships.

2. an insurance agent for ships.

ˈshipbuilder noun

a person whose business is the construction of ships. a firm of shipbuilders.

ˈshipbuilding noun

ˈshipowner noun

a person or company that owns a ship or ships.

ˌshipˈshape adjective

in good order. She left everything shipshape in her room when she left.

ˈshipwreck noun

1. the accidental sinking or destruction of a ship. There were many shipwrecks on the rocky coast.

2. a wrecked ship. an old shipwreck on the shore.

verb

We were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa.

ˈshipyard noun

a place where ships are built or repaired.

ship water

(of a boat) to let water in over the side. The boat shipped water and nearly capsized.

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In the beautiful, refreshing, still nights of spring, when the moon pours her silver light over the Country, the listening shipper hears from the rushing of the waves, the echoing Clang of a wonderfully charming voice, which sings a song from the crystal castle, and with sorrow and fear he thinks on the young Count Hermann, seduced by the Nymph."

The shipper in the little ship It effects with woe sad might; He does not see the rocky slip, He only regards dreaded height.

I believe the turbulent waves Swallow the last shipper and boat; She with her singing craves All to visit her magic moat.

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'I hope not,' said Eugene; 'my father having been a shipper of lime before me, and my grandfather before him--in fact we having been a family immersed to the crowns of our heads in lime during several generations--I beg to observe that if this missing lime could be got hold of without any young female relative of any distinguished gentleman engaged in the lime trade (which I cherish next to my life) being present, I think it might be a more agreeable proceeding to the assisting bystanders, that is to say, lime-burners.'

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He was not one to arouse keen enthusiasm among the wor- shippers in his church but on the other hand he made no enemies.

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Perhaps the buyers would be holding off for better prices-- if they could scare the shippers into thinking that they meant to buy nothing that day, they could get their own terms.

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Godalming told the shippers that he fancied that the box sent aboard might contain something stolen from a friend of his, and got a half consent that he might open it at his own risk.

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A collaboration announced last month between two stalwart shipper groups--the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) and the National Strategic Shippers Transportation Council (NASSTRAC)--is taking direct aim at building and enhancing trust between shippers and carriers.

NASSTRAC and CSCMP roll out "Strategic Shipping Program"

and DCP Midstream announced that due to shipper interest they have extended by one month the open season to solicit binding commitments for the development of a new pipeline system to transport segregated, light batches of crude oil originating in Cushing and terminating in Houston.

SemGroup, DCP extend open season

Targa Resources announced that Targa NGL Pipeline Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, has launched an open season commencing June 15, 2018 and closing July 6, 2018 to gauge shipper interest in firm interstate transportation service for natural gas liquids from Coal and Hughes Counties, Oklahoma to Mont Belvieu, Texas.

Targa NGL Pipeline Company launches open season

In tight market conditions, to ensure better capacity at a better price, shippers must become a "shipper of choice" by making their freight more desirable for carriers.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste: Sure, the logistics industry is in crisis but leading shippers recognize this as an opportunity to make bolder changes to secure capacity at reliable prices for the future

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Canadian Cannabis Firm THC BioMed Acquires US Plant Packaging Provider Clone Shipper

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