offload
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
offload (offloads, present participle offloading; past and past participle offloaded)
- (transitive) to unload.
- (transitive) to get rid of things, work, or problems by passing them on to someone or something else.
- He offloaded the defective car onto an unsuspecting buyer.
- (transitive, rugby) to pass the ball.
- (transitive, aviation, travel) to deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space.
- (transitive, aviation, travel) to change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not).
- Italian: scaricare
- Russian: разгружа́ть
- Spanish: descargar, desembarcar
offload (plural offloads)
- The act of offloading something, or diverting it elsewhere.
- 2013, Bertrand Dufrasne, Bruno Anderson Barbosa, Peter Cronauer, IBM System Storage DS8870 Architecture and Implementation
- For environments that do not allow FTP traffic out to the Internet, the DS8870 also supports offload of data by using SSL security.
- 2013, Bertrand Dufrasne, Bruno Anderson Barbosa, Peter Cronauer, IBM System Storage DS8870 Architecture and Implementation
- (rugby) The act of passing the ball to a team mate when tackled.
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