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say it: SHIP-ing
shipping is a noun meaning "the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shipping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.