1 ~ sth (from sth) to remove things from a vehicle or ship after it has taken them somewhere:
[VN] Everyone helped to unload the luggage from the car. * This isn't a suitable place to unload the van. * [V] The truck driver was waiting to unload.
OPPLOAD
2 [VN] to remove the contents of sth after you have finished using it, especially the bullets from a gun or the film from a camera
OPPLOAD
3 [VN] ~ sth/sb (on / onto sb) (informal) to pass the responsibility for sb/sth to sb else:
It's his problem, not something he should unload onto you.
4 [VN] ~ sth (on / onto sb/sth) (informal) to get rid of or sell sth, especially sth illegal or of bad quality:
They want to unload their shares at the right price.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for unload is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unload a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unload is tagged as verb.
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