Library / English Dictionary

SHIPPER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A company in the business of shipping freight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("shipper" is a kind of...):

company (an institution created to conduct business)

Derivation:

ship (transport commercially)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who ships goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("shipper" is a kind of...):

bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shipper"):

consigner; consignor (the person who delivers over or commits merchandise)

Derivation:

ship (transport commercially)

Credits