Other forms: shipments
A shipment is a batch of goods sent together, and also the sending of them. A shipment of parts, the shipment arrived, delay the shipment.
It does not require a ship — a shipment can go by lorry, rail or air. In logistics, a shipment is the unit that is tracked, and shipment tracking, shipment reference and part shipment are all standard terms. Note consignment, which is the near-synonym and slightly more formal; and ship as a verb, which in American commerce simply means to send, by any means at all.
1nounshipmentA batch of goods sent together.
“The shipment sat in customs for about three weeks.”
2nounactThe act of sending goods.
“Shipment is arranged once the invoice is settled.”
shipment is a sending of goods.
Proto-Indo-European
*skey-
Middle English
schip
English
ship
English, today
shipment
From ship + -ment. ship comes from Middle English schip. From Middle English chip, schepe, schip, schup, scip, scippe, ship, shup, ssip, from Old English sċip, sċyp, from Proto-West Germanic skip, from Proto-Germanic skipą (“ship; tub, vessel”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European skey- (“to split”). More at shift. 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA