shipper

noun

ship·​per ˈshi-pər How to pronounce shipper (audio)
: one that sends goods by any form of conveyance

Examples of shipper in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web For a big shipper, the fines can add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Steve Banker, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024 Many Influencer Program participants are also Amazon sellers, drop shippers and Kindle publishers looking to tap into the site’s massive audience of consumers and ride the tech behemoth’s coattails to wealth and glory. Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024 Some shippers’ woes are being compounded by restrictions at the Panama Canal where a drought is limiting the number of vessels that can transit the waterway. Paul Berger, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2024 Surveys of manufacturers and service-providers, such as retailers, banks, and shippers, also reported that business perked up last month. Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024 The situation was supposed to make shipper Maersk a lot of money. Melvin Backman, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024 In fact, for commercial shippers, there aren’t any realistic alternatives to nuclear, says Jan Emblemsvåg, professor of ocean operations and civil engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. IEEE Spectrum, 20 Jan. 2024 Aid organizations worry that just the fear of running afoul of U.S. regulations could be enough to scare away shippers, banks and others in the commercial supply chain that Yemenis depend upon for survival. TIME, 17 Jan. 2024 Some shippers are paying millions of dollars to jump the growing queue, while others are taking longer, costlier routes around Africa or South America. Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1755, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shipper was in 1755

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“Shipper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shipper. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

shipper

noun
ship·​per ˈship-ər How to pronounce shipper (audio)
: one who ships goods
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