Meanings
plural offloadings
- countableuncountableThe act by which something is offloaded.
However there is a significant number of offloadings in the regional tuna database which do not identify the port at which the offloading took place […]
1998, South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency, Development Opportunities in Selected Tuna Fisheries for Pacific Island Countries, page 123
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of offload
A new site for a fully mechanised unloading terminal, to achieve quick offloading of the ore to special trains, was therefore selected at General Terminus Quay, on the south side of the Clyde [...].
1963 June, B. Perren, “Colvilles iron ore traffic in the Glasgow area”, in Modern Railways, page 409
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