shipping articles

1. 1.

   a contract between crew and captain of a ship

   Synonymsarticles of agreement

   Broadercontract

Questions about shipping articles

What does shipping articles mean?

shipping articles means "a contract between crew and captain of a ship".

What is another word for shipping articles?

Close synonyms include articles of agreement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shipping articles a common word?

shipping articles is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.