shipment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun goods carried by a large vehicle
    load; cargo; lading; loading; consignment; freight; payload.
  2. noun the act of sending off something
    despatch; dispatch.

WordNet

Ship"ment noun
Definitions
  1. The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
  2. That which is shipped.
    The question is, whether the share of M. in the shipment is exempted from condemnation by reason of his neutral domicle. Story.

Webster 1913