pro-shipper

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Supportive of maritime transport, especially as opposed to railway transport.

   • Perhaps an even more important point is the disclosure of the Commission's anti-railway pro-shipper point of view.
   • Thorne and the other radical pro-shipper men, it is believed, however, might oppose the proposition on the theory that the Federal Commission, as now constituted, has too tender a regard for the railroads.
   • In fact, the decisions of the Commission during this period were so notoriously pro-shipper that railroad owners were very much concerned, —it looked like confiscation.
2. 2

   One who supports a specific ship or shipping in general.

   • I think this whole thing is a semantic misunderstanding.. the anti-shippers and the pro-shippers are putting entirely different meanings into the phrase 'in love'.
   • For all you pro-shippers and anti-shippers keep posting and debating. Someone is watching you.
   • As a pro-shipper, I think it's gonna be a long season. Will spring ever get here?
3. 3

   One who supports a ship or shipping deemed problematic (e.g., due to incest, age…

   One who supports a ship or shipping deemed problematic (e.g., due to incest, age differences, abusive dynamics, etc.), and/or believes in the freedom to create and consume fanworks with such elements.

   • Near-synonym: anti-anti
   • Things, let’s say, escalated very quickly, with pro-shippers and anti-shippers going at each other over all sorts of nonsense that was obviously a bit hard to follow.
   • Pro-shippers argued back that depiction was not endorsement, especially if creators tagged their works with the applicable warnings, such as “abuse” or “emotional blackmail”.

The neighborhood

• neighborship and let ship