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carload
noun car·load \ˈkär-ˈlōd, -ˌlōd\
: the amount of people or things that will fit in a car : a car full of people or things
Full Definition of CARLOAD
1
: a load (as of occupants) that fills a car <a carload of tourists>
2
: the minimum number of tons required for shipping at carload rates
3
: a large unspecified quantity <a carload of excuses>
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First Known Use of CARLOAD
1824
Related to CARLOAD
- Synonyms
- abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, lot, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Rhymes with CARLOAD
abode, anode, bar code, boatload, busload, byroad, cartload, caseload, cathode, church mode, commode, corrode, crossroad, dead load, decode, diode, displode, download, dress code, dynode, embowed, encode, epode, erode, explode, forebode, freeload, front-load, geode, high road, implode, inroad, live load, lymph node, no-load, off-load, outmode, payload, planeload, postcode, post road, railroad, rhapsode, sarod, shipload, side road, Silk Road, skid road, source code, spring-load, square-toed, tetrode, threnode, trainload, triode, truckload, unload, upload, zip code
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