shipment noun
1 quantity of goods sent from one place to another
ADJ. arms, drug, oil, plutonium, weapons, etc.
VERB + SHIPMENT receive, send | escort An armed patrol boat will escort the shipment. | seize Customs officers have seized a large shipment of cocaine.
PREP. ~ of a shipment of arms
2 act of transporting goods
ADJ. illegal | bulk | onward taken to Aqaba in Jordan for onward shipment to Brazil | waste trying to ban toxic waste shipments
VERB + SHIPMENT await large quantities of food awaiting shipment to the worst affected areas | arrange, begin, make | ban, stop | resume
PREP. ~ from to arrange a shipment from India | ~ to illegal shipment of arms to the Third World
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