noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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drug
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The convictions capped a two-year federal investigation that showed the ex-officers accepted payoffs for protecting the drug shipments .
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The most difficult drug shipments to detect are those secreted in the container boxes of commercial ships.
unit
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And unit shipments grew 12 percent to 1. 3 million.
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Apple said its unit shipments had grown 12 percent in the December quarter over the same period a year ago.
■ VERB
receive
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Rosenthal said Barneys has received no domestic goods shipments since it filed for bankruptcy protection last Wednesday night.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Your order will be ready for shipment tomorrow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All three systems report purchase orders and / or shipments of hundreds of units that are not yet installed.
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And last week the company said shipments from Quincy Farms had declined 5 percent because of the cut.
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At the moment supervision of these shipments in most countries stops at the national border.
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He was preparing a similar excursion with a shipment of salt when the trouble started.
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Production and shipment has already begun, and the contracts extend through the first quarter of 1994.
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The new University of California campus and the Salk Institute were opening for business, with shipments of intellectuals arriving daily.
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The only conceivable opening for venality was in the private shipment of food supplies for profit.
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They, at least, had ensured that the cocaine shipment was safely on its way.