What's the difference between shipper and shopper?
Shipper
Definition:
(n.) One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is also the largest shipper of coal around the world.
(2) The possibility exists that antibiotics and anti-inflammatory agents will be used indiscriminately in attempts to reduce leukocyte or somatic cell counts in mammary secretions to conform with Interstate Milk Shippers quality standards for raw milk to be implemented July 1, 1986.
(3) Manual and computer-assisted semen analysis were performed by the participating laboratories on pooled cryopreserved human semen samples following shipment either on dry-ice pellets or in liquid nitrogen (dry shippers).
(4) He took a job with Safeway Cargo, FedEx’s shipper in Liberia, as the general manager’s personal chauffeur.
(5) Global oil prices began to collapse just a few months after shippers committed to using DAPL, and market forecasters do not expect prices to regain 2014 levels for at least a decade.
(6) Flint Hills is not among the six shippers that have already signed contracts to send their oil through the Keystone XL.
(7) As a result, production in the Bakken Shale oil field has fallen for nearly two consecutive years…” The profit in the pipeline was to come from shippers who were locked into 2014 prices if the project was completed by 1 January.
(8) Within walking distance of his building are circuit-board manufacturers, injection-moulding companies, packagers and shippers.
(9) Joe Cox, CEO of the Chamber of Shipping of America trade group, said shippers plan for more immediate problems and for events that have precedent, like labor stoppages in a particular port.
(10) For the last century, the Panama Canal has been a key factor in world trade, enabling shippers to move more than 300m tons of products per year between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
(11) In the form it submitted to the Energy Board, Flint Hills wrote that it "is among Canada's largest crude oil purchasers, shippers and exporters.
(12) In fact, lots of people gain – the retailer, the leatherworkers, the dyers, the shippers, the artisans, the toolmakers (even the odd creative consultant) – most of them probably in Britain.
(13) He also pointed out that the corporation has previously said in court that if it were not delivering oil by 1 January 2017, its shipper contracts would expire and the project would be in jeopardy.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reunited… Aaron and Robert in Emmerdale In more romantic news, Emmerdale ’s Robron, that couple beloved of soap ’shippers everywhere, got a happy ending after Aaron’s dad was banged up for abuse.
(15) Paget, the FirstEnergy Capital analyst, said "such a pricing differential will be too attractive to [oil sands] shippers.
(16) Shippers contacted by the Guardian either did not respond to inquiries or declined to comment on the terms of their contracts with Energy Transfer.
(17) If DAPL is not available as scheduled, we will continue to use our current transportation methods,” said John Roper, spokesman for Hess Corporation, one of the shippers.
(18) In asking a judge to speedily green-light the $3.8bn project, vice-president Joey Mahmoud claimed that the loss of shippers could “effectively result in project cancellation”, leading advocates and analysts to declare that a missed January deadline could be financially disastrous for ETP and a huge feat for Standing Rock.
(19) Break-even prices and fracking costs have long been broken and it now almost seems we will keep going lower until the members of the Opec cartel literally can no longer afford a slip in prices.” Shippers, airlines and motorists stand to gain from the fall.
(20) "Food for Peace is a point of pride for the 44,000 American farmers, shippers, processors, longshoremen, and merchant mariners whose jobs depend upon the programme … American mariners on commercial US-flag vessels delivered more than 90% of defence cargo to military posts in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Shopper
Definition:
(n.) One who shops.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(2) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
(3) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(4) Energy UK said the help offered by its members to pensioners and low-income households was the equivalent of giving shoppers £135 per year.
(5) His latest thinking includes introducing concierge desks to welcome shoppers and tapas bars in its wine departments.
(6) We found that even after a "half price" reduction, shoppers are sometimes paying more than they were being charged just a few months earlier.
(7) From the initiative they have started, they can see there is a major problem and it needs to be dealt with.” Handley said that dairy farmers were being used by Morrisons so it could get more shoppers into its stores.
(8) But he said the 5C was likely to pick up sales after launch with more price-sensitive shoppers.
(9) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
(10) Record numbers of shoppers hit the stores this weekend for the Thanksgiving Day sales but retail experts are sceptical that the trend can continue into a bumper Monday for online retailers.
(11) "Shoppers will not be attracted to a high street if they feel unsafe," said Robertson.
(12) The company’s success reflects affluent shoppers’ willingness to pay extra for products perceived to be of high quality, made with premium ingredients.
(13) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
(14) Argos shoppers are largely drawn from the core mass market – the C2 and D socio-economic groups, which have not benefited as much from big falls in mortgage rates as those on higher incomes.
(15) Like many British shoppers, she finds she has to play a cat-and-mouse game with Tesco's myriad offers (some real, some less authentic) to keep costs down.
(16) But the retailer has also been making efforts to cut back on promotions, and Merriman said its relatively higher prices could have pushed shoppers elsewhere.
(17) People have been suspended for getting a negative review from the secret shoppers," he said.
(18) This is all about enabling shoppers to make informed choices."
(19) Apple's flagship stores are understood to be preparing to welcome shoppers at 7am on 14 October, with a number staying open until midnight.
(20) Like many other high street names, it has already begun offering large discounts at the start of this week in an attempt to get shoppers spending.