containerload

English

Etymology

From container +‎ load.

Noun

containerload (plural containerloads)

1. 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:

     “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.”

Related terms

• containerization
• container ship