shipment
noun
ship·ment
ˈship-mənt 
Examples of shipment in a Sentence
We sent out another shipment of books.
My order was delivered in two shipments.
This box is ready for shipment.
Recent Examples on the Web
The Shanghai facility, with a capacity of over 950,000 vehicles annually, produced over half of Tesla’s 2024 shipments.
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
To ease the disruption, CBP is allowing shipments to be released while importers delay payment of customs duties.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
With steep tariffs, China’s shipments to the U.S. will likely plunge by 80% over the next two years, Julian Evans-Pritchard, head of China economics at Capital Economics, said late Thursday.
—Evelyn Cheng,anniek Bao, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2025
On a recent Tuesday, atop the museum’s dark coffee table, notes scrawled onto white paper listed the latest shipments of vitamin C and Alaskan cod liver oil.
—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2025
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
To ease the disruption, CBP is allowing shipments to be released while importers delay payment of customs duties.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
With steep tariffs, China’s shipments to the U.S. will likely plunge by 80% over the next two years, Julian Evans-Pritchard, head of China economics at Capital Economics, said late Thursday.
—Evelyn Cheng,anniek Bao, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2025
On a recent Tuesday, atop the museum’s dark coffee table, notes scrawled onto white paper listed the latest shipments of vitamin C and Alaskan cod liver oil.
—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shipment
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“Shipment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shipment. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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shipment
noun
ship·ment
ˈship-mənt
1
: the act of shipping
2
: the goods shipped
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