shipped out
Sent off overseas
Shipped out means sent away, especially to a distant location.
The phrase often describes military deployment: He shipped out to the Pacific in 1943.
It can also mean dispatched as cargo: The order shipped out yesterday.
More casually, it describes leaving or being sent somewhere, sometimes unwillingly: They shipped him out to a boarding school in Vermont.
- outgoingSociable and unreserved
- stationingAssigning to a location
- overseas deploymentMilitary assignment abroad
- banishedForced to leave permanently
- transferredMoved to new location
deployment · enlistment · boot camp · basic training · exiled · freight · embarkation · set sail · removed · evacuated · conscription · marching orders · military orders · outsourced · mobilization · relocated · cargo · reassignment
shipped outwarehoused
Stored in depot
stored · held · retained · kept · stockpiled
shipped outcame back
Went and returned
mustered out · repatriated · discharged · demobilized · stayed behind
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