Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - offload

(offloads, offloading, offloaded) 1. If you offload something that you do not want, you get rid of it by giving it or selling it to someone else. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use unload) Prices have been cut by developers anxious to offload unsold apartments... Already in financial difficulties, Turner offloaded the painting on to the Getty Museum. VERB: V n, V n onto n 2. When goods are offloaded, they are removed from a container or vehicle and put somewhere else. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use unload) The cargo was due to be offloaded in Singapore three days later. = unload ? load VERB: be V-ed, also V n