0 past simple and past participle of offload
1 to get rid of something that you do not want by giving it to someone else:
Readers must assume the burden of composing meaningful information artefacts, work otherwise offloaded to genres.
The courts have thus offloaded the most troublesome and thorny part of the disputes while retaining the easiest part.
The results showed that sketching offloaded visuospatial working memory.
When the train approached a station, the outgoing mail intended for the local community was offloaded and the incoming mail destined for communities further down the line was onloaded.
When a ship gets into trouble, these cargoes are the first to be offloaded and come up on to our beaches.
I wish to put on record my opposition to the costs continuing to be offloaded onto the farmers.
Securities are first talked up in price, then offloaded at a profit, and shortly afterwards the price falls rapidly.
That, of course, does not count the damage caused by common agricultural policy food exports being offloaded on to world markets.
