off-load

verb

(ˌ)ȯf-ˈlōd How to pronounce off-load (audio)
ˈȯf-ˌlōd
off-loaded; off-loading; off-loads
: unload

Examples of off-load in a Sentence

the warehouse needs to hire more people to load and off-load the trucks
Recent Examples on the Web
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Shumet Amdemichael, the director of the nonprofit Mercy Corps’ Nigeria programs, told me that his organization may off-load generators to local hospitals. Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025 As a result of the mismatch between buyers and sellers in these six cities, sellers are adjusting their expectations and cutting prices to off-load their properties. Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025 But in subsequent years, as Giuliani’s reputation and finances plummeted amid numerous lawsuits and legal cases — at one point, his lawyer told the court Giuliani had $57,000 in unpaid phone bills, which doesn’t even seem possible — he was forced to off-load his real estate to raise cash. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 14 Aug. 2025 By the late Nineties, flimsy strictures of economic decorum were being made even flimsier: massage the losses, underestimate the debts, off-load liabilities into subsidiaries, hide who owns them. Leigh Claire La Berge, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025 Around sunset on a rainy Saturday in November, 1906, a woman walked the streets of Rochester, in western New York State, trying to off-load a stack of counterfeit two-dollar bills. Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 14 July 2025 For more than a decade, State Street operated joint ventures that allowed the financial services firm to off-load some IT and back-office tasks to outsourcing partners like Atos and HCLTech in India. John Kell, Fortune, 18 June 2025 By off-loading the pitcher at the deadline, Detroit saved nearly $5 million, all of which the Dodgers absorbed. Dan Freedman, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025 Some are turning to industrial park partnerships to both off-load real estate assets and spur growth. Li Jun, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of off-load was in 1850

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“Off-load.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off-load. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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