Usually means: Remove contents from a container.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word unload:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. unload: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unload: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unload: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unload: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unload: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unload, unload: Wordnik
  7. unload: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unload: Wiktionary
  9. unload: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. unload: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. unload: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. unload: Dictionary.com
  13. unload: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. unload: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Unload: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Unload: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. unload: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. unload: Rhymezone
  19. unload: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. unload: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. unload: Free Dictionary
  22. unload: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. unload: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. unload: Legal dictionary
  4. Unload: Financial dictionary

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unload: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unload: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unload: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. unload: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To deposit one's load or cargo.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express; to unburden oneself of.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
verb:  (transitive) To discharge, pour, or expel.
verb:  (transitive) To get rid of or dispose of.
verb:  (idiomatic, transitive) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.
verb:  (transitive, aviation) To reduce the vertical load factor on (an airplane's wing or other lifting surface), typically by pitching downwards toward the ground to decrease angle of attack and reduce the amount of lift generated.
verb:  (transitive) To deliver forcefully.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the charge from; to discharge.

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