containerload

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English

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Etymology

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From container +‎ load.

Noun

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containerload (plural containerloads)

  1. An amount of goods shipped in a container, especially a shipping container.
    Coordinate terms: containerful (sometimes synonymous); boatload, carload, shipload, trailerload, truckload, wagonload
    • 2007 August 13, Bob Tedeschi, “Manufacturers Find Ways to Navigate Web Retailing”, in New York Times[1]:
      “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.”
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