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ship·ping

shipping

 
pronunciation:
shI pIng
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part of speech: noun
definition: When people send things to other places for buying or selling, it is called shipping. For shipping, people usually use airplanes, ships, or trucks to move things from place to place.
Deep, wide rivers are good for shipping because large ships can travel easily from town to town bringing goods to sell.
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