Usually means: Transfer responsibility or burden elsewhere.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word offload:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. offload: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. offload: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. offload: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. offload: Vocabulary.com
  5. Offload, offload: Wordnik
  6. offload: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. offload: Wiktionary
  8. offload: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. offload: Dictionary.com
  10. Offload: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. offload: Rhymezone
  12. offload: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. offload: FreeDictionary.org
  14. offload: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. offload: TheFreeDictionary.com

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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