transship
verb
trans·ship
| \ tran(sh)-ˈship
, tran(t)s-\
, tran(t)s-\
variants:
or less commonly tranship
transshipped
also transhipped;
transshipping
also transhipping;
transships
also tranships
Definition of transship
: to transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another
: to change from one ship or conveyance to another
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Other Words from transship
transshipment
or less commonly transhipment \ tran(sh)-ˈship-mənt
, tran(t)s- \
noun
, tran(t)s- \
noun
Examples of transship in a Sentence
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Washington’s campaign in recent years included slapping punitive duties, in addition to the broad tariffs, on Chinese-origin goods from steel to furniture that the U.S. Commerce Department deemed to have been transshipped. — Chuin-wei Yap, WSJ, "American Tariffs on China Are Being Blunted by Trade Cheats," 26 June 2019 Methamphetamine is often smuggled from Laos, and commonly transshipped from Myanmar, where it is produced. — Bloomberg.com, "Methamphetamine Seizures Lead Surge in Thai Drug Busts," 3 Apr. 2018 Canada first announced plans to strengthen the rules on diversion and transshipping last year but didn’t immediately bring them into force. — Kim Mackrael, WSJ, "Canada Announces New Antidumping Measures," 27 Mar. 2018 The fuel is transshipped onto cheaper conventional vessels in northwest Europe at terminals with the facilities to do so, including the U.K.’s Isle of Grain. — Bloomberg.com, "Why the U.S. Is Buying Natural Gas From Russia," 19 Jan. 2018 The ports handle more than 40 percent of the waterborne freight entering the nation, and unloading container ships and transshipping their contents employ as many as 1.6 million Southern Californians. — Dan Walters, San Francisco Chronicle, "California ports celebrate a merry Christmas," 25 Dec. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'transship.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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