as in to unload
to empty or rid of cargo
the warehouse needs to hire more people to load and off-load the trucks
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Recent Examples of off-load
Shumet Amdemichael, the director of the nonprofit Mercy Corps’ Nigeria programs, told me that his organization may off-load generators to local hospitals.
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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
The canister was still wedged in my crotch, off-loading its contents like a homemade Roman candle.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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
The canister was still wedged in my crotch, off-loading its contents like a homemade Roman candle.
—Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-load
unload
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Porter began to unload her water samples.—
Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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The first workers focused on key tasks including unloading and storing merchandise, preparing orders for physical and online stores and managing both ground and air shipments.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Off-load.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-load. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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