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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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 Some are turning to industrial park partnerships to both off-load real estate assets and spur growth. Li Jun, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019 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 In South Florida, inventory is also growing because an increasing number of condo owners are trying to off-load their properties, fearing rising fees as a result of new safety-building regulations introduced by Tallahassee lawmakers in the wake of the Surfside tragedy of 2021. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025 The Tampa Bay housing market in Florida, which has exploded over the past few years, is finally starting to cool down, according to recent data showing that sellers in the region are increasingly accepting offers below the asking price in order to off-load their properties. Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025 All of those flights require more than 20 minutes to off-load baggage. Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 5 Feb. 2025

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 26 Jul. 2025.

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