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  • noun Plural form of unloading.

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Examples

  • That would be asking a lot, given how easy it is to throw off the rush hour schedule with loadings and unloadings on crowded platforms.

    Why rush hour Metro trains are empty Post 2010

  • Whether the shipment is toxic chemicals, hazardous waste, sensitive materials, corn, coal, computers or cars, the ability to track, trace and monitor a range of given conditions offers shippers a wealth of information to plan arrivals, unloadings and restockings.

    Securing The Rails Eric LaBat 2006

  • In recent years in the processing of raw materials, the carbonising of reclaimed wool has become more efficient with the replacement of old ovens by new and larger ones with continuing processing which minimises the number of loadings and unloadings reducing waste and heat dispersion. 6 A new integrated machine (produced by an Italian firm) is now available for the entire process.

    Chapter 6 1984

  • Some grades of carbide are softer than others, and therefore tend to yield more dust if exposed to a long journey with frequent unloadings.

    Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

  • Because the water offshore was shoal ships could not come in very close but must lie well out in the lagoon and their unloadings and their reloadings were carried on by means of whale-boats ferrying back and forth between ship side and dock side with the push cars to facilitate the freight movement at the land end of the connection.

    From Place to Place 1910

  • There were many unloadings of the little craft, and many packings-up again.

    The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

  • If such trucks must block highways for a short time, "we require escorts and law enforcement for traffic control," he said, noting that the state picks "a non-peak time, middle of the night, whenever feasible" for unloadings on public roads.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • If such trucks must block highways for a short time, "we require escorts and law enforcement for traffic control," he said, noting that the state picks "a non-peak time, middle of the night, whenever feasible" for unloadings on public roads.

    courierpress.com Stories 2010

  • During their loadings and unloadings, however, nurdles have a knack for spilling and escaping.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2009

  • At the Ninth and Front Street Warehouse across from BODO, the museum is unloadings elling shelving units, display cases, well-used pedestals, Christmas trees (yes, that's plural), artwork crates and furniture.

    Boise Weekly 2009

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