shipping company

collocation in English

meaningsofshippingandcompany

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shipping
noun[U]
uk
/ˈʃɪp.ɪŋ/us
/ˈʃɪp.ɪŋ/
ships considered as ...
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company
noun
uk
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/us
/ˈkʌm.pə.ni/
an organization that sells goods or services in order to ...
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(Definition ofshippingandcompanyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To these seafarers, theshippingcompanyis their 'work unit', which they depend upon for survival.
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These seafarers still view themselves, and are viewed by their employer, as 'belonging' to theshippingcompany.
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I am not aware of anyshippingcompanyhaving deliberately evaded this regulation.
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I summoned representatives of the railway company, of theshippingcompany, and of the cattle trade.
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I gather theshippingcompanyrepresentatives were received with great courtesy and there was a useful but not very positive discussion.
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The ships return with commodities of some description, and certain sums are credited to the account of theshippingcompanythrough the banks.
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The proportion of accommodation allotted to first and tourist class respectively is determined by theshippingcompanyaccording to the accommodation available.
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Different rules will apply because then it is under the guardianship, as it were, of ashippingcompany.
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Theshippingcompanyis to provide information of prohibitions or restrictions which its ships will encounter when they put into a particular port.
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They can assure their income to theshippingcompanyas they did to the railway companies.
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The farmer opens his newspaper and sees that a certainshippingcompanyhas made £3,000,000 profit.
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It strikes me as interesting that this is a commercial undertaking and that this would have been a subsidy to ashippingcompany.
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Theshippingcompanysay they have no immediate plans for new ships.
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It relates to the case of ashippingcompany.
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I do not need to say that the ultimate choice is for theshippingcompanyconcerned.
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Persons to whom priority passages are refused should maintain their registration with ashippingcompany in case an unexpected opportunity to sail should arise.
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For instance, there is the case of ashippingcompany.
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I have made inquiries of theshippingcompany.
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The vice-chairman has said that he will join ashippingcompanyand has given notice to quit.
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It has had the disadvantage of high freight rates under a subsidised private enterpriseshippingcompany.
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