"drop ship" meaning in English

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      "form": "drop ships",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "drop shipping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drop shipped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drop shipped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "drop ship (third-person singular simple present drop ships, present participle drop shipping, simple past and past participle drop shipped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "Business",
          "orig": "en:Business",
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          "name": "Transport",
          "orig": "en:Transport",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "dropshipper"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "If you drop ship the orders, then you don't need to own the products; thus, fewer of your customers suspect you're acting as a middle man.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 November 29, Taylor Lorenz, “Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Rowan also experimented with dropshipping. This entails setting up an online storefront that ships products from third-party retailers to customers, profiting on the difference.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deliver goods for a business directly to its customers, as though the business owned a relevant inventory, but with the manufacturer as the real source of the delivery."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dropship"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to act as a middle-man while lacking own inventory",
          "word": "dropshippen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "drop ship"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dropshipper"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "drop ships",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drop shipping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drop shipped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "drop shipped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "en:Business",
        "en:Transport"
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        {
          "text": "If you drop ship the orders, then you don't need to own the products; thus, fewer of your customers suspect you're acting as a middle man.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 November 29, Taylor Lorenz, “Here’s What’s Happening in the American Teenage Bedroom”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Rowan also experimented with dropshipping. This entails setting up an online storefront that ships products from third-party retailers to customers, profiting on the difference.",
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        "To deliver goods for a business directly to its customers, as though the business owned a relevant inventory, but with the manufacturer as the real source of the delivery."
      ]
    }
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    {
      "word": "dropship"
    }
  ],
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to act as a middle-man while lacking own inventory",
      "word": "dropshippen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "drop ship"
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