- the act or business of a person or thing that ships.
- a number of ships, especially merchant ships, taken as a whole; tonnage.
- a voyage.
- the act or practice of discussing, writing about, or hoping for a romantic relationship between fictional characters, as in fan fiction, or between famous people, whether or not the romance actually exists in the book, show, etc., or in real life:the shipping of TV characters;shipping in webcomics.
- the business of transporting freight, esp by ship
- (as modifier)
- ships collectively
- the tonnage of a number of ships
