"shipping company" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shipping companies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} shipping company (plural shipping companies)
  1. A company whose main line of business is ownership and operation of ships. Translations (company): rederi [neuter] (Danish), rederij [feminine] (Dutch), varustamo (Finnish), laivanvarustamo (Finnish), Reederei [feminine] (German), Schifffahrtsgesellschaft [feminine] (German), Schiffahrtsgesellschaft (note: obsolete spelling) [feminine] (German), Schifffahrtsunternehmen [neuter] (German), Schiffahrtsunternehmen (note: obsolete spelling) [neuter] (German), rederi [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), reiarlag [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), naviera [feminine] (Spanish), rederi [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-shipping_company-en-noun-h2gYXM5H Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55 Disambiguation of 'company': 100 0
  2. line (The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry)
    Sense id: en-shipping_company-en-noun-v5BRekAm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55

Inflected forms

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