Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of shipping a second time; specifically, the shipping for exportation of what has been imported.
- noun That which is reshipped.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of reshipping; also, that which is reshipped.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The condition of being
reshipped - noun countable A second or subsequent
shipment
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of shipping again (especially by transferring to another ship)
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Examples
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The warehouse in Denmark could accommodate sixty tons of food in preparation for reshipment to prison camps.
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The Allies had greatly reduced exports to Denmark as part of the Allied blockade strategy to prevent the reshipment of food and raw materials to Germany through neutral ports.
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Association secretaries inspected incoming food deliveries at the palace in Stockholm and repacked them for reshipment and distribution to individual POWs.
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The Association received permission from the Danish government to purchase food from local sources and import provisions from neutral countries for reshipment to war prisoners.
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The Danish government gave the Association permission to purchase food from Danish sources and to import foodstuffs from neutral countries for reshipment to needy prisoners of war (this permission was highly unusual given the tight blockade that the Allies imposed on Denmark to prevent the trans-shipment of food to Germany).
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This practice created mountains of parts which were then taken to central stores before reshipment to the next processing step.
Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003
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The appropriated amount had also to cover the transportation of the Austrian Government exhibits as well as the expense of the reshipment of same.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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There was, then, no immediate shortage of supply when war came in America, rather an unusual accumulation of raw stocks, even permitting some reshipment to the Northern manufacturing centres of America where the scarcity then brought high prices.
Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams
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Fraser, Trenholm & Co. With capital and credit unlimited; with branches at every point of purchase, reshipment and entry; with constantly growing orders from the departments -- these giant concerns could control the market and make their own terms.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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A few of the horses after their voyage were in good order, and the most of the others, which were in such low condition from their insufficient allowance of water from Moreton Bay to Torres Strait, now showed, from their having plenty of water since their reshipment at Hardy's Islands, that they were in a thriving state.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills William Landsborough
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