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Definition of "transhipped" [transhipped]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of tranship. (verb)

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Use "transhipped" in a sentence
  • "Well, it turns out those jeans were manufactured in Mexico at a maquiladora from Mexican cotton with Mexican labor and transhipped to LL Bean in Maine to then be reshipped to me at Lake Chapala back in Mexico under the auspices of and within the jurisdiction of NAFTA and I was charged a criminal and confiscatory duty just to get those jeans in Mexico which were manufacrured here in the first place."
  • "The stretch of water between the head of the Box Canon and the foot of the White Horse Rapids was unnavigable for steamboats, and passengers were transhipped at that point, walking around the rapids from one steamboat to the other."
  • "The carrier Ranger made flank speed to Norfolk and the pilots were transhipped to San Francisco by train, then sped to Hawaii by ship."
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