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loadout en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈloʊ.daʊt/ (General-American)
  • /ˈləʊd.aʊt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Deverbal from load out.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The set of objects (e.g., equipment, supplies) to be carried into battle, onto a jobsite, etc.; all that one needs for a specific purpose.
    • Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible. 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
  2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A set of items and abilities chosen by the player before embarking on an in-game mission.
    • I've got my custom loadout, a holographic scoped assault rifle and a stock of claymore mines to use to cover my back as I look out over the wreckage of the downed transport plane for insurgents. 2015, Alan F. Meades, Understanding Counterplay in Video Games:
  3. (countable, uncountable) The transfer of an object onto a vessel or vehicle.
    • 'Load-out' : The transfer of a major assembly onto a barge by horizontal movement or by lifting. (For the purposes of this document, the term Barge can be considered to include Pontoon, Ship or Vessel where appropriate).
    • Quote from Definitions section, page 9:

Forms

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Coordinates

gear · outfit · kit

Relateds

outload · buildout · lock and load · load up · fully-loaded · pack out · layout · tricked out