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- noun Plural form of
shipload .
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Examples
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Cutting Russia's bargaining powerWhile Russia holds out for the best price, gas demand in Europe is weak, shale gas makes North America self-sufficient in gas, and shiploads of liquefied natural gas cruise the oceans looking for buyers.
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If you feel that the manipulation of the news flow regarding metals “demand” is designed to get prices down and facilitate a grab for copper mines and not just for a few shiploads in the short term then the mines that are in the target range are largely in Peru and they are projects like those of Candente and Chariot Resources.
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Fourteen shiploads of cargo and machinery arrived to provide tons of food.
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Cutting Russia's bargaining powerWhile Russia holds out for the best price, gas demand in Europe is weak, shale gas makes North America self-sufficient in gas, and shiploads of liquefied natural gas cruise the oceans looking for buyers.
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Investors at the time built import terminals to receive shiploads of gas from the Middle East and Africa.
Britain's Gas-Price Gamble Simon Moore 2011
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Fourteen shiploads of cargo and machinery arrived to provide tons of food.
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My sleep was often a torment to me, for it was then that my desires took licence to rove, so that a thousand times I dreamed myself possessed of hogsheads of tobacco -- ay, and of warehouses of tobacco, and of shiploads and of entire plantations of tobacco.
Chapter 19 2010
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My sleep was often a torment to me, for it was then that my desires took licence to rove, so that a thousand times I dreamed myself possessed of hogsheads of tobacco -- ay, and of warehouses of tobacco, and of shiploads and of entire plantations of tobacco.
Chapter 19 2010
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Fourteen shiploads of cargo and machinery arrived to provide tons of food.
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"Live animal exports are shiploads of misery," he told reporters.
Cattle Footage Highlights Australia-Indonesia Rift Ray Brindal 2011
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