load
noun [ C ]
uk/ləʊd/ us TRANSPORT
an amount of goods or people transported by road, railway, or air:
The total maximum load is four hundred kilograms.
heavy/large/full load Heavy passenger loads put stress on the nation's aviation system.
carry/deliver/transport a load
a load of sth The tanker was commissioned to pick up a load of hazardous materials.
WORKPLACE
the amount of work to be done by a person, an organization, or a machine:
lighten/reduce a load Workers have asked whether the bank intends to lighten their load by hiring more staff.
share/spread the load British manufacturing is looking to other sectors to help share the load of investing in infrastructure.
heavy/light/increased load
FINANCE
a charge that you pay when you buy or sell shares in an investment company
ECONOMICS, FINANCE
an amount of money, usually a large amount, that a person, company, or country has to pay:
debt/tax load A ruling by the European Union lightened the tax load on investors buying gold.
See also
back-end load
caseload
deadweight
front-end load
Full Container Load
less-than-container load
load factor
payload
sales load
workload
load
verb
uk/ləʊd/ us [ I or T ] TRANSPORT
to put goods onto a vehicle to transport them:
A surge in trade has seen up to 90 vessels a week at the port waiting to load their cargoes.
Trucks were loading and unloading at the warehouse.
load sth with sth The tanker was loaded with four million gallons of diesel oil.
Compare
unload
[ I or T ] IT
to put a program or data onto a computer or website:
load software/a file/a program The software is very easy to load.
The updates don't take long to load.
[ T ] FINANCE
to include charges in an investment, loan, etc.:
load sth with sth The card is designed to attract customers with poor credit and comes loaded with lots of fees and a very low credit limit.
Phrasal verbs
load (sth) up with sth
load up on sth