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carload

[ kahr-lohd ]

noun

  1. the amount carried by a car, especially a freight car.
  2. the legal minimum weight entitling a railroad shipper to a rate carloadrate lower than that charged for less than this weight.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of carload1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55; car 1 + load

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Example Sentences

For the most part, a carload of randy frat boys causes Metro Vice more headaches than the CES crowd.

He recalls calling a meeting when “American Gypsies were flooding in by the carload” to Milwaukee.

A carload of German tourists had been killed the week before; there was nothing to stop them.

I believe they are going to get hauled by the carload in November.

Then they dumped in carload after carload of rock and gravel; but the muskeg absorbed it and waited for more.

She had a carload of groceries, and I helped her put them in the house.

Paper could not be obtained for printing, and a carload of brown wrapping paper was used.

Only low-grade and long haul carload traffic can profitably be concentrated.

Nor can local business in less than carload lots profitably be concentrated beyond a certain point.

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