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
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-load
unload
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Stratton unloaded an array of moves on Stratus, including a suplex that ended with Stratus hitting Stratton’s knees.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
14 July 2025
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Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unloaded roughly $36.4 million worth of stock in the leading artificial intelligence chipmaker, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
11 July 2025
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“Off-load.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-load. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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