shipping

Meanings

Noun

• The transportation of goods.
• The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry.
• Passage or transport on a ship.
• The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.
• Navigation.

Verb

• Present participle of ship

Origin

• From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen, from Old English scipian ("to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship"), equivalent to ship + -ing.
• From ship + -ing.