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# shipload

noun (shipload, shiploads)

«shipload» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A shipload is the full amount that a ship can carry, or a very large load carried by ship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipload/#m1)

### In the lessons

used in tales for a huge cargo of goods such as incense, gold or grain; it names a large amount without giving a number

### Examples

- The merchant sold a shipload of spices. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipload/#x1)
- They unloaded a shipload of wool at the port. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipload/#x2)
- He paid for the shipload with his gold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipload/#x3)

### Note

A shipload gives no exact count; it means a big amount, so the number must be found elsewhere in the problem

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «shipload» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shipload/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shipload» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/shipload.html) on Mova free.