BACKLOAD

Etymology

Noun

backload (plural backloads)

A load carried on the return journey of a delivery vehicle.

Verb

backload (third-person singular simple present backloads, present participle backloading, simple past and past participle backloaded)

To load toward the back, or towards the end of a period.

(transport) To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.

(transitive, military) To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.

To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel.

Antonyms

• frontload

Source: Wiktionary



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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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