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See also: off-loading

English

Verb

offloading

  1. 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)

  1. 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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