SHIPPING OFFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipping office mean? 

• SHIPPING OFFICE (noun)
  The noun SHIPPING OFFICE has 1 sense:

1. the office of a shipping agent; an office where seamen are hired

  Familiarity information: SHIPPING OFFICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIPPING OFFICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The office of a shipping agent; an office where seamen are hired

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("shipping office" is a kind of...):

business office; office (place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed)

 Context examples 

I think our next scene of operations must be the shipping office of the Adelaide-Southampton line, which stands at the end of Pall Mall, if I remember right.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)