containerload
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]containerload (plural containerloads)
- 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 New York Times[1]:
- “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.”