Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of disconnecting the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply
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Examples
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Sita, like my uncle's family, lives in Malibu Towne in Gurgaon, 212 acres of a middle-class heaven where the upper-middle-class inhabitants of the tower apartments enjoy a life of "no load-shedding" -- meaning the towers are run by external generators so the residents can avoid the cyclical power cuts the government inflicts on its booming populace.
Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games Parvez Sharma 2010
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At the end of 2007, South Africa began to experience an electricity crisis because state power supplier Eskom suffered supply problems with aged plants, necessitating “load-shedding” cuts to residents and businesses in the major cities.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Sita, like my uncle's family, lives in Malibu Towne in Gurgaon, 212 acres of a middle-class heaven where the upper-middle-class inhabitants of the tower apartments enjoy a life of "no load-shedding" -- meaning the towers are run by external generators so the residents can avoid the cyclical power cuts the government inflicts on its booming populace.
Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games Parvez Sharma 2010
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In the world's mushrooming cities, electrical "load-shedding" (cutting off the electricity on some lines when the demand exceeds the supply) and brownouts (drops in voltage) tend to see poor consumers lose out most (if indeed they have access to electricity at all – 1.4 billion of them don't).
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The electricity has cut out for eight hours each day as part of a severe load-shedding regime that has caused riots in other parts of Pakistan where cities are experiencing a severe heatwave with temperatures of between 43C and 47C.
Temperatures reach record high in Pakistan Declan Walsh in Islamabad 2010
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Criticism of the government is a duty that a free media must perform, even of problems like the PIA, of load-shedding and rental units, and the wheat and sugar crises, that have a history in the past.
Syed Yahya Hussainy: Fixing the Ship Without Sinking It Syed Yahya Hussainy 2010
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PESHAWAR: PESCO has increased the duration of load-shedding from six hours to eight hours in Peshawar and adjoining areas.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pakistan: Power cut durations increased in Peshawar 2009
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pakistan: Power cut durations increased in Peshawar 2009
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People are frustrated with the early load-shedding this year and they want the newly elected government to improve the power situation this summer.
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At the end of 2007, South Africa began to experience an electricity crisis because state power supplier Eskom suffered supply problems with aged plants, necessitating "load-shedding" cuts to residents and businesses in the major cities.
South Africa 2009
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