backloading

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Definition of backloading

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.
    “One State fauna authority believes that Australian fauna is smuggled out and backloadings of drugs are made.”
    “A structural weakness in Cairns tourism is the lack of an outbound market. Asiana, owned by the South Korean tyre manufacturer Kumho, established its office in Cairns two years ago but failed to attract passenger backloadings.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.
    “One State fauna authority believes that Australian fauna is smuggled out and backloadings of drugs are made.”
    “A structural weakness in Cairns tourism is the lack of an outbound market. Asiana, owned by the South Korean tyre manufacturer Kumho, established its office in Cairns two years ago but failed to attract passenger backloadings.”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of backload

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Etymology

From back + loading or backload + -ing.

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