backload
A load carried on the return journey of a delivery vehicle.
Noun
- A load carried on the return journey of a delivery vehicle.
Origin
From back + load.
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Verb
- To load toward the back, or towards the end of a period.
- For a grant this size, you would expect either that the vesting occurs over a considerably longer period or is backloaded. - 2007 October 17, Geraldine Fabrikant, “New Contract for Moonves Links Pay to CBS’s Results”,...
- To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.
- To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.
- Not only will repair and recovery be vital, but also the backloading of equipment casualties to farther rearward, better protected, and more specialized maintenance facilities. - 1993, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, International...
- To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel.