outload

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verb

to load (a watercraft etc.) with supplies or personnel.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

verboutload (third-person singular simple present outloads, present participle outloading, simple past and past participle outloaded)

present singular third person outloads · participle present outloading · participle past outloaded · past outloaded

  1. ambitransitiveespeciallygovernmentto load (a watercraft etc.) with supplies or personnel.

    The division outloaded over the following three days and sailed for Pusan at mid-morning on the 15th.

    1961, Billy C. Mossman, United States Army in the Korean War: Ebb and Flow
    2 more examples

    It was found that the Division could outload itself almost entirely with the equipment normally found in a division. This was possible either by use of equipment organic to an airborne division or like equipment.

    1943, United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps, Q.M.C. Historical Studies, page 256

    The choice of outloading equipment is influenced by the size of ship to be filled and type of material to be handled.

    2016, Sean Moran, Process Plant Layout

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outload,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outload.

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