truckload

noun truck·load \ -ˈlōd , -ˌlōd \

Updated on: 27 May 2018

Definition of truckload

1 : a load or amount that fills or could fill a truck

2 : the minimum weight required for shipping at truckload rates

3 : a large amount

truckloads of money

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Perhaps that is why an early version of the parties’ accord included demands that the ECB forgive €250bn in Italian debt and that the EU send over truckloads of money to finance M5S’s basic income.

— The Economist, "Italy’s populists are more dangerous than they seem," 17 May 2018
Foutch and his general contractor, McCownGordon, hauled 140 truckloads of concrete at a cost of $6 million to create two floors in the middle of the arena.

— steve vockrodt, kansascity, "KC's historic Kemper Arena to become Hy-Vee Arena under new naming rights deal | The Kansas City Star," 17 May 2018
Not everyone got the message—two days after the bill was signed by Governor Kerner on July 9, 1963, the Cook County Sheriff's Department raided 67 establishments and rounded up truckloads of pinball machines.

— ryan smith, Chicago Reader, "News / Politics / History / Pinball Week Chicago once waged a 40-year war on pinball," 5 May 2018
The company’s truckload fleet was essentially flat in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2017.

— jennifer smith, WSJ, "Truckers, Railroads Slashed Payrolls in April," 4 May 2018
Despite its efforts to ramp up grassroots activity, an effort backed by truckloads of cash raised online from more than 340,000 first-time donors, according to a spokesman, the party brand remains in the tank, complicating an already touchy process.

— gregory krieg, CNN, "Indivisible backs Rohrabacher challenger as progressives vie to unseat old Democratic kingmakers," 2 May 2018
After a lengthy battle, the waste was mercifully gone as of Thursday — removed one truckload at a time — but little Parrish is left with the sting of feeling as if no one cared that all of this excrement was left on its doorstep.

— erin shaw street, Washington Post, "A ‘poop train’ from New York befouled a small Alabama town, until the town fought back," 20 Apr. 2018
Where had that additional truckload of animal flesh come from?

— moises velasquez-manoff, New York Times, "Can Dirt Save the Earth?," 18 Apr. 2018
Nguyen, the 1998 Lombardi Award winner, and Manziel, the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner, are among the truckload of former A&M standouts who will take part in A&M’s first Legends Game, a flag football contest.

— brent zwerneman, Houston Chronicle, "Former A&M stars Dat Nguyen, Johnny Manziel to headline flag football at halftime of spring game," 29 Mar. 2018

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