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# shipper

«shipper» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person or company that sends goods from one place to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a shipper, shippers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person or company that sends goods from one place to another, by sea, air, road or rail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipper/#m1)

2) (informal, fans) A person who likes the idea of two characters in a story or show being a couple and supports that pairing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipper/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and business lessons shippers move goods around the world in containers; in everyday life a shipper sends parcels bought online. Among young fans online, a «shipper» is someone who «ships» two characters, from «relationship». Phrases: «a freight shipper», «the shipper pays the cost».

### examples

- The shipper sent the parcel by air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipper/#x1)
- Big shippers carry toys from factories to shops across the ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipper/#x2)
- The shipper charges more for heavy boxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipper/#x3)
- The company is the largest shipper of bananas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipper/#x4)
- (informal) Half the fans are shippers who want the two heroes to fall in love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipper/#x5)
- The shipper lost my package, so they sent a new one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipper/#x6)

### note

Countable. Note «shipper» sends things but does not have to use a ship; in the USA «ship» just means «send». The fan sense comes from the verb «to ship» (to want two characters together).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shipper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.