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
The plant would use the rail yard to load and off-load raw materials, according to city zoning documents.
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Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2026
Portfolio Arbitrage Accelerated After a quiet first-half 2025, M&A activity in beauty ramped up, as companies look to either off-load underperforming businesses or add brands for inorganic portfolio expansion.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026
The lawsuit accuses the park of negligence, including failing to ensure that the ride was operating properly and failing to train ride attendants on how to off-load guests when the ride doesn’t fully enter its off-loading platform.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
The report describes a kind of doom loop of AI dependence, where students increasingly off-load their own thinking onto the technology, leading to the kind of cognitive decline or atrophy more commonly associated with aging brains.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
Anthropic has raised concerns over students off-loading cognitive work to AI systems, and OpenAI has acknowledged that dependence on AI tools more generally is a problem.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
Under those guidelines, farmers who want to retire or off-load unproductive bogs without selling to developers can instead convert their land to wetlands with the help of the state.
—Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 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
Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2026
Portfolio Arbitrage Accelerated After a quiet first-half 2025, M&A activity in beauty ramped up, as companies look to either off-load underperforming businesses or add brands for inorganic portfolio expansion.
—Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 24 Feb. 2026
The lawsuit accuses the park of negligence, including failing to ensure that the ride was operating properly and failing to train ride attendants on how to off-load guests when the ride doesn’t fully enter its off-loading platform.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
The report describes a kind of doom loop of AI dependence, where students increasingly off-load their own thinking onto the technology, leading to the kind of cognitive decline or atrophy more commonly associated with aging brains.
—Cory Turner, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
Anthropic has raised concerns over students off-loading cognitive work to AI systems, and OpenAI has acknowledged that dependence on AI tools more generally is a problem.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
Under those guidelines, farmers who want to retire or off-load unproductive bogs without selling to developers can instead convert their land to wetlands with the help of the state.
—Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-load
unload
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Policy for transporting firearms Amtrak requires firearms on its trains to be declared, unloaded, secured in a hard case and to meet certain size and weight requirements.—
Claudia Lauer,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Jerusalem — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Israel of knowingly allowing grain stolen by Russia to be unloaded at Israeli ports, threatening to impose sanctions on anyone involved in the shipments, which Kyiv says have continued despite multiple appeals to Israeli officials.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Off-load.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-load. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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