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• n  the labor of taking a load of something off of or out of a vehicle or ship or container etc.
• v  leave or unload
• v  take the load off (a container or vehicle)

• In coastal cities, strong-shouldered stevedores were loading and unloading ships dawn to dusk without a container or stacking crane in sight.
• And she used the near parasitic interest in her personal life to her advantage, unloading her new kids' baby pictures for $14 million, all of which went to charity.
• Local produce is served bento-box-style onboard, or you can toddle ashore, past lobster fishermen unloading their catch, to dine at Peppermint Bay, adjacent the quaint hamlet of .

• drop
• drop off
• set down
• put down
• unload
• discharge
• unlade
• offload

• loading

News & Articles

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• If Dwight Howard Bolts Lakers, Will Pau Gasol Regain All-Star Form?
  Unloading Pau Gasol to save money could be the dumb decision of the year should the Los Angeles Lakers go in that direction this summer.   Conversely, keeping Gasol in purple and gold for the remaining year of his contract and shifting him over to play center should Dwight Howard leave may turn out to be a brilliant move. The future of Pau Gasol as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers is as ...
  June 13, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Moorhead man forgot infant daughter in hot minivan for four hours, police say
  The father of a 5-month-old girl who died after being left in a hot minivan forgot about the infant while unloading five other young children from the vehicle, Moorhead, Minn., police said.
  June 13, 2013 - Pioneer Press
• Unresponsive man pulled from West Knox Co. lake
  TWRA says witnesses saw the man unloading a trailer with personal watercrafts at Carl Cowan Park.
  June 12, 2013 - WBIR-TV Knoxville

Quotes

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• Mark Harvey in Melbourne Herald Sun
  I cannot understand it in Round 1 . . . don't keep putting pressure and unloading on a team every time they lose a game,Harvey said. "We have just played a top-four side from last year, and everyone wants to jump on you. We will keep...
• Jimmie Johnson in Sports Network
  We knew we had a great car today unloading and stayed focused on qualifying trim,said Johnson. "We felt like this first pit stall was going to be awfully important and luckily we were able to back it up. Qualifying has never really been my...
• Alexei Ulanov in Reuters India
  There is no prospect in such a merger other than unloading debts to the state,Alexei Ulyanov, head of the industry department at the Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, told reporters on the sidelines of a metals conference.