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transshipment

noun

Etymology

From trans- + shipment.

  1. derived from *skēyb-✻
  2. inherited from *skipą✻
  3. inherited from *skip✻
  4. inherited from sċip
  5. inherited from ship
  6. suffixed as shipment — “ship + -ment”
  7. formed as transshipment — “trans- + shipment”

Definitions

  1. The transfer of goods from one means of transport to another.

  2. The shipment of goods via an intermediate destination.

    • Its main export crop is cashew nuts, but drug money has flowed to corrupt officials as smugglers pay bribes to use the country’s coastline and remote airstrips for cocaine transshipments.
    • Higher minimum rates might be necessary to limit heterogeneity in rates and reduce transshipment.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for transshipment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA