shipping out
Heading to sea
Shipping out means departing, especially for military duty or a distant destination.
Soldiers ship out when deployed overseas: He's shipping out to Korea next month.
The phrase can apply to any significant departure: The new recruits are shipping out tomorrow.
To ship out carries finality—leaving one place decisively for another.
- exportingSending goods abroad
- transportingMoving something elsewhere
- supply chainProduct delivery infrastructure
- embarkationBeginning a voyage
- port of callScheduled ship stopover
deployment · overseas deployment · military orders · marching orders · basic training · farewell · enlistment · troop movement · departure · mobilization · tour of duty · dispatch · sailing · send-off · leave-taking · saying goodbye · journey · cargo
- military enlistmentenlistment, recruit, enlisted, induction, recruits
shipping outreturning home
mustering out · demobilizing · coming back · standing down · getting out
shipping outstaying put
Remaining in place
remaining · staying · staying behind · settling in · standing down
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