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unload
/ʌnˈləʊd/ verbDefinition
› [I or T] TRANSPORT to remove goods from a vehicle or ship: Trucking companies are trying to cut the time drivers spend waiting in line to load or unload. The port will spend $300 million to build a new container terminal, where ships load and unload cargo.
› [T] FINANCE to get rid of or sell something, because it has gone down in value, is illegal, or is of poor quality: The bank asked them to unload $1 billion of Treasury bonds. With markets slipping, insurers have been unloading shares to maintain the cushion between their assets and liabilities.
(Definition of unload verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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