shipping room
- noun
- /ˈʃɪpɪŋ ruːm/
:
sala de envío
- After checking the inventory, the manager instructed the team to organize the supplies in the shipping room.
Examples
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Moreover, the floors of the packing and shipping rooms, made of smooth cement, were washed down each day with powerful streams of water.
Academic text (1996) -
Stanley and Peggy sit on stacks of bound newspapers in the vast shadowy shipping room.
Fiction book (1994) -
There's a shipping room downstairs.
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The workers carefully packed the boxes in the shipping room before sending them out for delivery.
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In the large shipping room, items were efficiently sorted and prepared for dispatch to various locations.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room where goods are packaged and prepared for shipment' is directly and transparently composed from 'shipping' (the activity of moving or sending goods) + 'room' (an indoor space). This noun–modifier composition is a common, literal pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Shipping room comes from old warehouses where items were brought into one room to be packed for shipping. Because 'shipping' originally meant sending goods away (often by ship), a shipping room is simply the place where packages are prepared to be 'sent'.
