Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The load that an airplane is capable of carrying.
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- noun As much, or as many, as a
plane can carry
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, on the other hand, there's nothing like a few carefully marshalled talking heads – Steve Richards was the one waving the ping-pong bats at a planeload of regretful ex-ministers – for putting one's lost luggage into perspective.
Rewind radio: The Brown Years; Desert Island Discs; Craig Brown's Lost Diaries Rachel Cooke 2010
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He was a pilot and he did fly a planeload of water purifiers and supplies to Haiti in 2005, following a flood that devastated the island.
Robert A Decatur 2010
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Demoralized by the McCarthy witch hunts at the State Department, the embassy staff feared Donovan was invading with a planeload of OSS spooks to take over the diplomatic mission.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Readers, remember that in the days after the 9/11 attack -- in which virtually all the perpetrators were of Saudi origin -- the Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar persuaded high-level figures in the Bush administration to allow a planeload of Saudis to leave this country without being questioned by the FBI.
Len Levitt: Congressman King: The Yahoo Has a Point Len Levitt 2011
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The night Gadhafi — then a junior officer who would later promote himself to colonel — ousted King Idriss, the first planeload of official visitors to land in Tripoli was from Egypt.
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Demoralized by the McCarthy witch hunts at the State Department, the embassy staff feared Donovan was invading with a planeload of OSS spooks to take over the diplomatic mission.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Precisely at noon, just as Reagan began to recite the oath of office, the planeload of Americans was permitted to take off.
30 years later, Iran still holds us hostage Ted Koppel 2011
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Which makes the news, a single automobile death or a planeload of people dead?
Palin gives 'stirring' gun rights speech at NRA dinner, says group 2009
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And so the prime minister will follow the example of Merkel when he lands in South Africa on Monday morning with a planeload of 25 British business leaders.
David Cameron joins the new Scramble for Africa – catching up with China 2011
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The night Gadhafi — then a junior officer who would later promote himself to colonel — ousted King Idriss, the first planeload of official visitors to land in Tripoli was from Egypt.
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