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This paper is a study of the literal and metonymic uses of the lexeme shipment as found in example sentences from the ‘Big Five’ English monolingual learners’ dictionaries (henceforth MLDs), and in concordances from the British National Corpus (henceforth BNC). The cognitive linguistic framework provides the theoretical background for the analysis. Adopting this framework, the paper argues the case for the PART-PART metonymy on the basis of the ACTION-RESULT metonymic subtype, represented by shipment. The usage of shipment is analysed to find out if the metonymic sense differs from the literal one with respect to collocation and colligation. Moreover, it is examined if countability indicators help distinguish between the ‘action’ and ‘result’ senses in dictionary and corpus examples. To achieve these aims, exemplification in the ‘Big Five’ is checked against the BNC evidence. The enquiry shows that while some lexical and grammatical patterns are specific either to the ACTION or RESULT meaning, the other ones can appear with both senses.