Synonyms:
transportation, shipping, transport
Meaning: the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
Usage examples
It was clear that Germany intended to employ submarines to destroy shipping.
Then Sir Tristram and Gouvernail gat them shipping, and so sailed into Brittany.
A railroad line across the continent owns its own steamers for shipping goods to Asia or Europe.
Flags on the shipping, in the harbor, were at half-mast; and bells tolled from one to three o'clock.
We took shipping at the first port we reached, and touched at the isle of Roha, where the trees grow that yield camphire.
Others of my neighbors planted them, and so did many people in Oregon, until soon there came to be a field for purchasing and shipping hops.
In this trim we rode safely enough for forty-eight hours--the ship proving herself an excellent sea-boat in many respects, and shipping no water of any consequence.
By a series of measures, enlarging the principles of the shipping act of 1916, ships and shipyards were brought under public control and the government was empowered to embark upon a great ship-building program.
Indeed he had the full benefit of it, and it so mauled him, though he bent his head low and tried to present nothing but the mangy cap to it, that he dropped under the lee of a tier of shipping, and they lay there until it was over.
Up to this time the chances seemed favorable of procuring the ready services of either of the above mentioned captains who visited Lawyer Bigelow for the removal of the merchandize to Philadelphia, providing the shipping master could have it in readiness to suit their convenience.