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backloading en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From back + loading or backload + -ing.

Meanings

  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.
    • 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. 1998, Business Review Weekly, volume 20, numbers 1-6, page 145:
    • One State fauna authority believes that Australian fauna is smuggled out and backloadings of drugs are made. 1978, Australian Government Publication Service, Parliamentary Papers, page 32:

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backloading en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

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