Usually means: Transfer responsibility or burden elsewhere.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. offload: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. offload: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. offload: Vocabulary.com
  4. Offload, offload: Wordnik
  5. offload: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. offload: Wiktionary
  7. offload: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. offload: Dictionary.com
  9. Offload: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. offload: Rhymezone
  11. offload: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. offload: Free Dictionary
  13. offload: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. offload: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. offload: CCI Computer
  2. offload: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offload: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To unload.
verb:  (transitive) To get rid of things, work, or problems by passing them on to someone or something else.
verb:  (transitive, rugby) To pass the ball.
verb:  (transitive, aviation, travel) To deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space.
verb:  (transitive, aviation, travel) To change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not).
noun:  The act of offloading something, or diverting it elsewhere.
noun:  (rugby) The act of passing the ball to a team mate when tackled.

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