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bill of lading

   Also found in: Legal, Financial, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.12 sec.
bill of lading
n. pl. bills of lading Abbr. B/L
A document issued by a carrier to a shipper, listing and acknowledging receipt of goods for transport and specifying terms of delivery.
bill of lading
Noun
a document containing full particulars of goods shipped
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Noun1.bill of lading - a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery
waybill
receipt - an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made


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The surgeon represented the case so affectionately to me that I yielded, and we took them both on board, with all their goods, except eleven hogsheads of sugar, which could not be removed or come at; and as the youth had a bill of lading for them, I made his commander sign a writing, obliging himself to go, as soon as he came to Bristol, to one Mr.
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Off to the right, under another lantern, he could make out the Resident Commissioner's clerk and the Makambo's super-cargo heatedly discussing some error in the bill of lading.
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