shipping company
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2.8
- noun
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- I contacted the shipping company to arrange the delivery of my goods.
- large shipping company
- foreign shipping company
No, this one has a couple of Chinese shipping companies.
- No, this one has a couple of Chinese shipping companies.
Examples
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In a project supported by the Port of Long Beach, Toyota, and Tokyo-based shipping company NYK Line, a greener, more efficient ship has been launched.
Academic text (2012) -
He owns one of the largest shipping companies on the East Coast.
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And so I decided, you know, I trust the car shipping company that I use to ship my cars.
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My dad was an executive at one of the shipping companies.
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Are you from the shipping company?
Fiction book (2000) -
I contacted the shipping company.
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She works at this shipping company, and they have this management training program.
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I think you're forgetting that you and I are employees of a big shipping company.
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Many of the shipping companies set up their own emigrant homes or hostels, often with a European in charge.
Academic text (1993) -
My shipping company has a freighter docked in Newark.
Synonyms
238
2.9
A person or company that delivers letters and packages
2
2.2
A business that moves people or things from one place to another
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3.3
A company that runs large boats with steam engines to carry people or goods by sea
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'shipping' (commercial movement of cargo) + 'company' (an organization), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a firm that arranges transport of goods. This noun–noun compounding pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English composition, making the expression immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
The noun shipping company comes from old merchants who owned or hired ships to move goods across the sea, so it literally names a shipping company, a business that sends goods by ship. That's why today it means a company that arranges the transport of goods by ship.