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Definition of Carload
1. Noun. A gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile.
2. Noun. The amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car. "He imported wine by the boatload"
Generic synonyms: Large Indefinite Amount, Large Indefinite Quantity
Definition of Carload
1. Noun. The contents of an automobile (passengers, supplies, etc.) for one trip. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carload
1. as much as a car can hold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carload
Literary usage of Carload
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1911)
"The consignee of the shipment, whoever he ‘may be, receives the carload and ...
“The saving effected by securing application of the carload rather than the ..."
2. Digest of Decisions of the Courts and Interstate Commerce Commission Under by Edward Beauchamp Peirce (1908)
"Of these rates nearly one half named for the same commodity a carload ...
The average differential in favor of carload shipments was approximately 50 cents. ..."
3. Investment Analysis: Fundamentals in the Analysis of Investment Securities by Walter Edwards Lagerquist (1921)
"Trainload and carload.—The trainload and carload are also valuable indices of the
... In carload statistics the carload unit is a smaller division than the ..."
4. Railroads: Rates and Regulation by William Zebina Ripley (1912)
"Growing distinction between carload and less- than-carload rates, 310. ...
The problem of carload ratings, 325. — carloads theoretically considered, 326. ..."
5. The Traffic Library: Principles of Classification by American commerce association (1920)
"Less-than-carload Charge Should Not Exceed carload Charge. The Official Classification
specifically provides that if the shipper orders a car for a ..."
6. The Control of Public Utilities by William Mills Ivins, Herbert Delavan Mason, New York (State). (1908)
"Power of Commission to prescribe minimum carload weights,— see post, § 49, note [14].
Reasonableness of regulation as to maximum carload weights,— see post, ..."
7. Freight Classification: A Study of Underlying Principles by John Frederick Strombeck (1912)
"Furthermore, less than carload shipments must be unloaded, transferred, and then
reloaded at transfer stations, while the full carload is easily switched ..."
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