backload

English

Etymology

From back +‎ load.

Noun

backload (plural backloads)

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

Alternative forms

• back load

Related terms

• backloading (noun)

Verb

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

1. 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 The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     For a grant this size, you would expect either that the vesting occurs over a considerably longer period or is backloaded.

2. (transport) To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.
3. (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.

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

Antonyms

• frontload

References

• “backload”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.