UNLOADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unloading mean? 

• UNLOADING (noun)
  The noun UNLOADING has 1 sense:

1. the labor of taking a load of something off of or out of a vehicle or ship or container etc.

  Familiarity information: UNLOADING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNLOADING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The labor of taking a load of something off of or out of a vehicle or ship or container etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("unloading" is a kind of...):

handling (manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something)

Antonym:

loading (the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.)

Derivation:

unload (remove the load from (a container or vehicle))

 Context examples 

And here is our boat, Sir Oliver, so it seems best to me that we should go to the abbey with our squires, leaving Master Hawtayne to have his own way in the unloading.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)