🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

remessa

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʁeˈmɛsɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Shipment/ˈʃɪp.mənt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2150 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A primeira remessa de produtos esgotou."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An amount of goods sent abroad or to some other destination.

    "The company expects a large shipment of raw materials by next Tuesday."
  2. 2

    The action of shipping goods.

    "We are preparing the shipment of your order right now."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'shippen' combined with the suffix '-ment', tracing back to Old English 'scipian' meaning to take ship or embark. Over centuries, the meaning shifted from the act of embarking to the goods transported and the commercial dispatch process itself.

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