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SHIPPING AGENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shipping agent mean?
• SHIPPING AGENT (noun)
The noun SHIPPING AGENT has 1 sense:
1. the agent of a shipowner
Familiarity information: SHIPPING AGENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The agent of a shipowner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("shipping agent" is a kind of...):
agent (a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations)
Context examples
Jonathan and the two doctors went to the shipping agent to learn particulars of the arrival of the Czarina Catherine.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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