backload
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backload (plural backloads)
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- backloading (noun)
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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.
- 2007 October 17, Geraldine Fabrikant, “New Contract for Moonves Links Pay to CBS’s Results”, in New York Times[1]:
- For a grant this size, you would expect either that the vesting occurs over a considerably longer period or is backloaded.
- (transport) To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.
- (transitive, military) To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.
- 1993, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, International Military and Defense Encyclopedia: M-O, page 1601:
- 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.
- To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel.
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- “backload”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.