Definition of workload
1 : the amount of work or of working time expected or assigned students with a heavy workload
2 : the amount of work performed or capable of being performed (as by a mechanical device) usually within a specific period
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Examples of workload in a Sentence
Students complained about the heavy workload.
Recent Examples of workload from the Web
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Such a workload is heavy but nonetheless common in softball due to the underhanded throwing motion that is easier on a pitcher's body.
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There will be a series of technical appointments, but no director of football to help ease his workload.
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The right-hander has carried a heavy workload in recent outings, with a pair of nine-inning complete games preceding the start against Mississippi State.
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The dozen or so surgeons at the Swedish Neuroscience Institute have taken varying approaches to managing their workloads.
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Cooper pointed out that the lower workloads could well be symptomatic of the fact that there are far more relief pitchers than there were in the old days.
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Two months later, at Google I/O, the company showed the TensorFlow Lite platform for mobile phones, and a beefier processor for running machine learning workloads, the Cloud TPU (Tensor Processing Unit).
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Each Grub screensaver crawls a portion of the Web and relays details back to LookSmart’s computers in San Francisco, which parcel out the workload.
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First Known Use of workload
1899
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: the amount of work that is expected to be done
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