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English
Verb
offloading
- present participle and gerund of offload
1963 June, B. Perren, “Colvilles iron ore traffic in the Glasgow area”, in Modern Railways, page 409:A new site for a fully mechanised unloading terminal, to achieve quick offloading of the ore to special trains, was therefore selected at General Terminus Quay, on the south side of the Clyde [...].
Noun
offloading (countable and uncountable, plural offloadings)
- The act by which something is offloaded.
1998, South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency, Development Opportunities in Selected Tuna Fisheries for Pacific Island Countries, page 123:However there is a significant number of offloadings in the regional tuna database which do not identify the port at which the offloading took place […]
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