SHIPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipper mean? 

• SHIPPER (noun)
  The noun SHIPPER has 2 senses:

1. someone who ships goods

2. a company in the business of shipping freight

  Familiarity information: SHIPPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIPPER (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

Godalming told the shippers that he fancied that the box sent aboard might contain something stolen from a friend of his, and got a half consent that he might open it at his own risk.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)