as in cargo
a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported
the space shuttle can carry a maximum payload of approximately 50,000 pounds
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Recent Examples of payload
In the first five minutes of the flight, the Atlas V jettisoned its five boosters, payload fairing, and kerosene-fueled first stage.
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Alex Goy, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
Their mission will include extravehicular activities, or spacewalks, and outreach events, as well as conducting a range of science experiments and installing and retrieving science payloads outside Tiangong.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Blue Ghost is designed to deliver 10 NASA payloads.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2025
While in space, the astronauts will conduct science and application experiments, install a space debris protection device, as well as extravehicular payload and equipment, and perform recovery tasks, according to the agency.
—Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025
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Alex Goy, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
Their mission will include extravehicular activities, or spacewalks, and outreach events, as well as conducting a range of science experiments and installing and retrieving science payloads outside Tiangong.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Blue Ghost is designed to deliver 10 NASA payloads.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2025
While in space, the astronauts will conduct science and application experiments, install a space debris protection device, as well as extravehicular payload and equipment, and perform recovery tasks, according to the agency.
—Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for payload
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Cathay Pacific has been flying cargo flights to Dallas for more than 20 years, but April marks its first passenger flight ever to the city.—
Taylor McIntyre,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Apr. 2025
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Six were killed in March 2024 when Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was destroyed when it was struck by a cargo ship.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2025
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Alongside the rest of Toronto’s rotation depth, Turnbull and Ureña should help ease the load at the top of the Blue Jays’ rotation.—
Will Sammon,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Because she is paid per load, Helen’s income does not meet the minimum wage when there are too few jobs available.—
Caroline Petrow-Cohen,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
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The Naugatuck train station is a small plexiglass box with a single bench, a lone dot in the expanse of the concrete parking lot, just across from the loading dock of a post office.—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
10 May 2025
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There’s a small receiving room for customers to pick up or drop off bottles and a loading dock for the larger orders.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
10 May 2025
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Managers are juggling the dual burden of pressure from superiors and the well-being of their teams amid return-to-office mandates, massive layoffs, tariff threats and economic uncertainty.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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Trade experts also note that to comply with the law, importers and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now face a new administrative challenge: the burden of inspecting millions of additional packages daily.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
2 May 2025
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“Payload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/payload. Accessed 14 May. 2025.
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