inshipment

English

Noun

inshipment (countable and uncountable, plural inshipments)

1. A shipment inward; an import.
   • 1961, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin, page 16:

     The final result of the extreme seasonality of marketings of cattle and calves in Arkansas would have been an inshipment of either slaughter cattle or block beef and beef products during three quarters of the year.