Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of offloading something, or diverting it elsewhere.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of passing the ball to a team mate when tackled.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Let's try and offload this cargo before lunch.

    ruДавайте постараемся разгрузить это всё до обеда. — Ooneykcall

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  2. He offloaded some really tough tasks onto me.

Origin

From off- + load.

From off- + load.

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Forms

plural: offloads

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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