shipping articles
- noun
- Archaic
:
contrato de embarque
- The shipping articles clearly outlined each crew member's duties and share of any profits.
Examples
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Before boarding, every sailor had to sign the shipping articles in the captain's cabin.
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If a dispute arose, the shipping articles served as the guiding legal document.
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The captain signed the shipping articles before departure.
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Have you reviewed the shipping articles for this voyage?
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Before boarding, every sailor had to sign the shipping articles in the captain's cabin.
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The shipping articles clearly outlined each crew member's duties and share of any profits.
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If a dispute arose, the shipping articles served as the guiding legal document.
Synonyms
A written contract between a ship's captain and crew about their work and pay
Surface Forms
Morphology
The words 'shipping' and 'articles' together suggest written clauses or documents related to shipping, so a learner might infer it refers to papers about maritime matters. However, the conventional maritime/legal sense — a specific employment contract between crew and captain detailing wages and duties — is a specialized, conventionalized meaning that a B1 learner would not reliably derive from the constituents alone.
Etymology
Shipping articles comes from life on old ships: before a trip the captain and crew met in the cabin and each sailor signed the articles, a paper that listed the work, pay and rules of the shipping job, so the term now means 'a formal contract'.
