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containerload

containerload noun: an amount of goods shipped in a container, especially a shipping container.

Noun

containerload (plural containerloads)

  1. An amount of goods shipped in a container, especially a shipping container.
    • “But we never wanted to be competing with our retailers, and we didn’t want to get involved with selling to one consumer at a time because we’re used to selling containerloads of product and we don’t have a huge staff for that.”2007 August 13, Bob Tedeschi, “Manufacturers Find Ways to Navigate Web Retailing”, in New York Times

Forms of containerload

pluralcontainerloads

Origin of containerload

From container + load.

Questions about containerload

What does containerload mean?
Containerload means an amount of goods shipped in a container, especially a shipping container.
What part of speech is containerload?
Containerload is a noun.
What is the plural of containerload?
The plural of containerload is containerloads.

Words near containerload in the dictionary

  1. containerizes
  2. containerizing
  3. containerless
  4. containerlessness
  5. containerlike
  6. containerload
  7. containerloads
  8. containerport
  9. containerports
  10. containers
  11. containersful

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