containerload

English

Etymology

container +‎ load

Noun

containerload (plural containerloads)

1. An amount of goods shipped in a container.
   • 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.”