I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cruise ship/liner
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a luxury cruise ship
a luxury ship/yacht
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He'd booked a holiday on a luxury cruise ship.
a manufacturing/shipping/publishing etc company
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I’m working for a printing company at the moment.
a passenger ship
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It is the biggest passenger ship afloat.
a rescue helicopter/boat/ship
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A rescue helicopter is on its way.
a shipping forecast (= a forecast about weather conditions at sea )
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According to the shipping forecast, strong winds can be expected later today.
cruise ship
mother ship
run/keep a tight ship (= manage a company, organization etc strictly and effectively )
sailing ship
ship's chandler
shipping forecast
shipping lane
shipping lanes
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busy shipping lanes
steel/oil/shipping etc magnate
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a powerful media magnate
tall ship
transport ship
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cargo
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Q: I have heard that you can reach many places in the world as passengers on cargo ships .
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During a routine docking maneuver to resupply, we collided with a cargo ship .
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And Weider Travel, of Felixstowe, has offered them a place on the cargo ship Sexton.
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Lying in the anchorage were two light cruisers, a number of destroyers, and about ten cargo ships .
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The only retail travel agency in Britain specialising in passenger journeys on board cargo ships .
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Tankers and cargo ships make easy targets.
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A river passenger boat crashed into a cargo ship and sank on the Amazon on March 7 after leaving Iquitos.
cruise
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One man's job was to select films for airlines and cruise ships .
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Developers have been trying for years to finish building a cruise ship pier that will bring more jobs and tourism to Cozumel.
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The cruise ship dilemma is a classic example.
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Unlike previous generations of cruise ships , the ever-larger vessels delivered in recent years have virtually no single cabins.
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Beds on cruise ships may either be free standing or bunk beds. g. Will there be self service at mealtimes?
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Best cruise ships overall: 1.
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As a cruise ship is primarily a hotel and leisure complex over half the staff are employed in these areas of specialisation.
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Instead, his cheerleading coach said, he chose to spend his spring break on a cruise ship .
supply
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This time Dennis claimed hits on a destroyer while Osborne inflicted damage on a supply ship .
■ VERB
abandon
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I don't understand why Andropulos and the others didn't abandon ship earlier.
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They enrolled here expecting much and are reluctant to abandon ship , though I have argued with them.
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The crew now wanted to abandon ship , and a few minutes later red flares were seen dead ahead.
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Ribault soon had to abandon the other two ships , the last reminders of a planned Huguenot empire.
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Paul Reichmann was not yet ready to abandon the ship .
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He was discouraged, ready to abandon ship .
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Of course I don't want to abandon ship .
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We make ready to abandon ship !
board
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Pirates in fast boats have tried to board ships off Bab el-Mandeb in the Red Sea's southern tip.
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Ishmael recalls boarding an Enderby ship with pleasure because of its fine provisions.
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Around 300 people managed to board a ship which set sail, but this was intercepted in the harbour by coastguards.
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The pier will bring more tourists, who will browse the boutiques and souvenir stores before boarding their ship at night.
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As they draw near Elijah detains them and asks if they intend to board the ship .
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Chapter Eight On 14 July 1892, Maisie's son boarded a merchant ship and sailed away from his homeland.
build
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In 1785 it cost £63,174 to build the 100-gun ship Victory.
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When built , the arsenal ships will have the smallest crews of any Navy ship except small coastal patrol craft.
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It would make more sense to build the ships in this country and use those millions to subsidise the industry.
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Developers have been trying for years to finish building a cruise ship pier that will bring more jobs and tourism to Cozumel.
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They were major subcontractors competing to design and build the arsenal ship .
jump
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Harley would have them jump ship just as it's pulling into the dock.
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Half the grunts jumped on to the sixteen ships , leaving the rest to wait for the last flight.
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When the Blefuscans saw me, they were so frightened that they jumped out of their ships and swam to the beach.
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The survivors had to jump from their sinking ship or walk on wobbling planks in order to be taken aboard.
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My first commitment is to Aprilia and I don't intend to jump ship .
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Before that happened, Ventura himself jumped ship .
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Fox jumped ship after Modesty Blaise in 1966.
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Eight grunts jumped on each ship .
leave
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Probably the FedPol contingent visiting Vadinamia had left a backup ship in orbit, as they often do.
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I a most sorry, and so is Captain Binneford, but no one can leave the ship .
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After another short chat they joined the exodus of dockers leaving the ship .
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She left the ship in Mazatlan the night after the performance.
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At midday, he would retire to the galley and leave the ship to Hal while he prepared his lunch.
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She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship .
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The experience will continue to influence those who have served long after they leave the ship .
sail
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The question of sailing the ship against winds or currents I submit the Khan ought to leave to sailors.
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Patrick builds an entire world filled with bubble machines, sailing ships and friendly dinosaurs.
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It's time to take the wheel, in each case a slender Bakelite rim of sailing ship proportions.
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Just as the sailing ship belonged to a world before jobs, the space ship belongs to a world after jobs.
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They decided to keep the sailors to help sail the ship , but they did not need me.
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The prejob world used sailing ships .
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None of you knows how to sail the ship home.
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At the four corners of the block were bronzed steer skulls, and the front of the block showed a sailing ship .
sink
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Like the people who made the bomb, the Clinton team understood that loose lips sink more than ships .
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They didn't make him redundant this time, they just sank the ships he was on.
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The survivors had to jump from their sinking ship or walk on wobbling planks in order to be taken aboard.
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Like Mrs Patrick Campbell, marsupials seem to be sinking ships , firing on their rescuers.
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On 8 August, 1813, a sudden and violent squall sank both ships within minutes of each other.
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Jean was pushed out of this sinking ship , but he actually should have jumped.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(like) rats leaving the sinking ship
abandon ship
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He was discouraged, ready to abandon ship.
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I don't understand why Andropulos and the others didn't abandon ship earlier.
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Of course I don't want to abandon ship.
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The crew now wanted to abandon ship, and a few minutes later red flares were seen dead ahead.
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They enrolled here expecting much and are reluctant to abandon ship, though I have argued with them.
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We make ready to abandon ship!
jump ship
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Many workers will jump ship if their employers try to limit their bonus.
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Before that happened, Ventura himself jumped ship.
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Does this mean Accord and Camry owners will be jumping ship for Chevrolet?
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Fox jumped ship after Modesty Blaise in 1966.
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Harley would have them jump ship just as it's pulling into the dock.
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My first commitment is to Aprilia and I don't intend to jump ship.
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Precious few traders were invited to return to Salomon after they had jumped ship, but Dipasquale was made an exception.
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Recruits in the big firms frequently jump ship.
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Sam seriously injured the fellow, and was then compelled to jump ship.
shape up or ship out
supply ship/convoy/route etc
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An Axis supply convoy was now spotted by a Maryland, and on 7 May an attack was laid on.
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At other times, they waged an incessant guerrilla war, attacking isolated Roman garrisons, ambushing caravans, cutting supply routes.
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From the summit there is a view of the Roman supply route, Dere Street.
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Mr Mobutu had cut the supply route after a dispute with Mr Savimbi.
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None of the supply routes go close to the point where Sunderby's aircraft ditched.
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The bases and the well-traveled supply routes that kept them run-ning were as obvious as Nui Ba Den.
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This time Dennis claimed hits on a destroyer while Osborne inflicted damage on a supply ship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cargo ship
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a cruise ship
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a reduction in oil shipments
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Hundreds of cars are lined up outside the factory, awaiting shipment to France and Holland.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another ship called in that a pilot was killed, and it turned back.
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Half-stunned, he struggled back aboard, to defend his ship like a fortress.
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I heard what had caught his attention the heavy thump of a big ship engine.
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I moved the aim away from the ship , an automatic precaution.
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Then they will take their place on the ship at Tilbury among the food, plants and livestock cargo.
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They brush off Elijah and board the ship , but they see no sign of the mysterious figures they saw boarding earlier.
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They identified your ten ships right away and cheered back.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
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Sand had been shipped in to form a deeper and wider beach, to accommodate up to two hundred people.
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Meat shipped in from abroad has been pinpointed as the most likely source.
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National stores have had ball gowns shipped in from all over the country.
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Seven-eighths of the water the town of Aegina consumes is shipped in from the mainland.
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It was casual and served freshly caught lobster shipped in from St Vincent.
now
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Models 5 and 25 are shipping now in volume.
off
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A quantity of ore is here shipped off to distant smelting-houses.
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How you hate being shipped off to Long Island for weeks on end during the summer.
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The pockets of hops were stored here until they were shipped off to market or to a brewery.
out
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Was this driven by the need to ship out the occupants of the decaying and unviable institutions?
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Braden and Ellsworth shipped out together and took Watling Street with them.
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They recalled kidneys being removed from chimpanzees in these places, and then shipped out .
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My whole flight-school class was suddenly redesignated as glider-pilot candidates and shipped out .
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His unit was shipping out for the latest hot spot, Formosa, in a couple of weeks.
over
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Stone and marble fixtures weighing 400 tonnes from a garden in Boston have been shipped over for this sale.
■ NOUN
company
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Both companies have already shipped versions of the software, but both see the need to improve performance.
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The company none the less began regular shipping over the spur that year, which continued until 1965.
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The company now intends shipping production code for the first time this week, saying it has hundreds of orders.
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Acer is one of the few companies shipping a monitor of this size aimed at the home market.
copy
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Random House says it is shipping 150, 000 copies , and has paper ready to print another 100, 000.
country
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But it's possible the antiques and art may have already been shipped out of the country .
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More than three million tonnes of waste were shipped from the industrialised countries of the South between 1986 and 1988.
product
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The company also has its Smartstream decision support products ready to ship under Unix at the end of the month.
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Assembled products can be quickly shipped to wherever they are needed with just-in-time air freight delivery systems.
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Both products are due to ship at the beginning of June.
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The product is expected to ship in September, he said in an interview at his Woodside estate.
system
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Some systems are still shipped with 16 megabytes, but Windows 95 runs much faster and more reliably with increased memory.
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The system is expected to ship by the third quarter of 1996.
unit
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Worldwide, since its launch some fifteen months ago, PageMaker has shipped in excess of 30,000 units for the Macintosh.
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However, Sony only began shipping units in quantity in mid-1994, spokeswoman Gemma Richardson pointed out.
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The catalogue has been distributed to current customers and resellers and will ship with all units .
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We shipped the first units in the first and second weeks of May 1993.
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PageMaker shipped 30,000 units in its first year and has now become regarded as the benchmark for today's competitors.
version
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Pre-final spec T9000-based versions will ship in June/July followed by final spec versions in the fourth quarter.
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The read-only version of Image/SQL will ship before year-end, with the full version following in mid-1993.
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OpenVMS versions will start shipping in July.
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Both the X and character versions will be shipped together so users can upgrade for free.
world
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If computers are now to be shipped to the third world , what are they going instead of?
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The story was picked up by the Associated Press and shipped around the world .
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Both governments fear censure if the fuel is shipped around the world again.
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Here the usual export formalities occur before the guitars are shipped all over the world .
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All works of art have the inalienable right to remain in their original abode rather than being shipped around the world for display.
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The fleet will be shipped around the world to venues where the sailing will be just part of a larger event.
■ VERB
begin
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Alcatel PABXs running Chorus began shipping earlier this year, with volumes expected soon.
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However, Sony only began shipping units in quantity in mid-1994, spokeswoman Gemma Richardson pointed out.
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After three years and approximately £2m of research and development, SeaChange 4 began shipping on March 31.
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The company none the less began regular shipping over the spur that year, which continued until 1965.
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In 1958, Ryan Potato Co. was formed and began shipping table potatoes.
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A new San Jose-based subsidiary of the huge company has begun shipping its first products: notebook computers aimed at business users.
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We began shipping our Archistrat 4s server only in December.
expect
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The company is currently designing a new chassis to provide full mechanical functionality, expecting it to ship in June.
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Quantum expects to ship 1. 5 million units by the end of June.
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Pioneer and Sony also expect to ship players in the second half of the year.
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The product is expected to ship in September, he said in an interview at his Woodside estate.
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Oracle expects to ship the product in September.
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The system is expected to ship by the third quarter of 1996.
plan
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Novell says it is planning to ship version 4.0 of NetWare for Unix by year's end.
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Philips plans to ship players, under both its Philips and subsidiary Magnavox labels, late this year.
start
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OpenVMS versions will start shipping in July.
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MicroHenry is a simpler and cheaper off-line version of Henry, which should start shipping in the summer.
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Pentium-based products will also be released, when Intel starts shipping the chip.
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This was developed in conjunction with Stratus Computer Inc, and should start shipping in November.
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UIM/X Professional 2.0 will start to ship in August.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(like) rats leaving the sinking ship
supply ship/convoy/route etc
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An Axis supply convoy was now spotted by a Maryland, and on 7 May an attack was laid on.
▪
At other times, they waged an incessant guerrilla war, attacking isolated Roman garrisons, ambushing caravans, cutting supply routes.
▪
From the summit there is a view of the Roman supply route, Dere Street.
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Mr Mobutu had cut the supply route after a dispute with Mr Savimbi.
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None of the supply routes go close to the point where Sunderby's aircraft ditched.
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The bases and the well-traveled supply routes that kept them run-ning were as obvious as Nui Ba Den.
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This time Dennis claimed hits on a destroyer while Osborne inflicted damage on a supply ship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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About half of the whisky produced in Scotland is shipped to Japan and the US.
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I'm a manufacturer, and I ship electronic goods across the Mexican border, so the new levies will definitely affect my business.
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The updated version is scheduled to ship on July 1.
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We can ship a replacement to you within 24 hours.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arizona seed growers suspect the infestation may widen because the state ships its seed to many other states and countries.
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It should ship in September or October.
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More oil is being shipped in less seaworthy vessels.
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The animals were shipped out on Friday, but maybe they didn't know that.
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The merchants would under-invoice what was shipped and over-invoice expenses.