Reshipments

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The act or instance of sending goods or cargo again to a destination after an initial shipment ; the process of dispatching items multiple times due to returns, corrections, or further distribution ; situations involving the repeated shipment of merchandise for logistical or commercial reasons
2. The procedure of forwarding products anew following an original delivery ; the recurring action of transporting goods again because of defects, adjustments, or additional orders ; cases where items are re-sent to clients or locations to fulfill shipping requirements
3. Repeatedly sending parcels or freight after the first dispatch ; handling and organizing shipments more than once due to errors, replacements, or extended supply chains ; the business practice of moving products again to meet customer or operational demands

Etymology: "Reshipments" is the plural of "reshipment," a noun built from the prefix "re-" (again) and "shipment" (a consignment of goods sent by ship or other carrier). The plural simply counts separate occasions on which goods are sent off again, so each use of the form points to a fresh dispatch of the same cargo. The base word "shipment" carries its own layered history. Its ending "-ment" comes through Old French from Latin "-mentum," a suffix that turned verbs into nouns naming the result or means of an action, so a shipment is literally the product of shipping. The root "ship" is Old English and far older still, but the "-ment" ending is the part that connects the word to the Latin-French channel that supplied so many English nouns.

Synonyms: re-exports, re-dispatches, re-deliveries