containerload

English

Etymology

From container +‎ load.

Noun

containerload (plural containerloads)

  1. An amount of goods shipped in a container, especially a shipping container.
    Coordinate terms: containerful (sometimes synonymous); boatload, carload, shipload, trailerload, truckload, wagonload
    • 2007 August 13, Bob Tedeschi, “Manufacturers Find Ways to Navigate Web Retailing”, 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:
      “But we never wanted to be competing with our retailers, and we didn’t want to get involved with selling to one consumer at a time because we’re used to selling containerloads of product and we don’t have a huge staff for that.”
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