A2 a large boat for travelling on water, especially across the sea:
a sailing ship
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Idiom(s)
› to send something, usually a large object or a large quantity of objects or people, to a place far away:
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- Her books and clothes were packed into chests and shipped across to Canada.
- Millions of live animals are shipped around the world each year.
- The goods are then shipped across the Atlantic.
- Products like this are routinely shipped to the four corners of the earth.
- It's cheaper to ship goods than it is to fly them.
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