ship out
phrasal verb
shipped out; shipping out; ships out
: to leave one place and go to another for military duties
The troops will be shipping out next month.
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Others came by sea: a ship out of Boston or New York could take months to journey around Cape Horn to San Francisco.
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 23 Apr. 2025
By conflating different incidents, the Trump administration appeared to be diverting the conversation from whether his administration could defy the courts, or deny due process to those arrested and shipped out of the country to a prison the United States is paying for.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2025
Goods flowing through these stations often are sent to Indian ports and airports, where they are shipped out via air or ocean to third-party countries.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 Apr. 2025
The data showed Irish exports of medicinal and pharmaceutical products topped 9.4 billion euros — nearly triple December's figure of 3.2 billion euros and more than double the nearly 4.1 billion euros of drugs shipped out in January 2024.
—Michael Erman, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
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Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 23 Apr. 2025
By conflating different incidents, the Trump administration appeared to be diverting the conversation from whether his administration could defy the courts, or deny due process to those arrested and shipped out of the country to a prison the United States is paying for.
—David E. Sanger, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2025
Goods flowing through these stations often are sent to Indian ports and airports, where they are shipped out via air or ocean to third-party countries.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 Apr. 2025
The data showed Irish exports of medicinal and pharmaceutical products topped 9.4 billion euros — nearly triple December's figure of 3.2 billion euros and more than double the nearly 4.1 billion euros of drugs shipped out in January 2024.
—Michael Erman, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Ship out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ship%20out. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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