backload

English

Etymology

From back +‎ load.

Noun

backload (plural backloads)

A load carried on the return journey of a delivery vehicle.

Alternative forms

back load

Related terms

backloading (noun)

Verb

backload (third-person singular simple present backloads, present participle backloading, simple past and past participle backloaded)

To load toward the back, or towards the end of a period.
- 2007 October 17, Geraldine Fabrikant, “New Contract for Moonves Links Pay to CBS’s Results”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  For a grant this size, you would expect either that the vesting occurs over a considerably longer period or is backloaded.
(transport) To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.
(transitive, military) To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.
- 1993, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, International Military and Defense Encyclopedia: M-O, page 1601:
  Not only will repair and recovery be vital, but also the backloading of equipment casualties to farther rearward, better protected, and more specialized maintenance facilities.
To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel.

Antonyms

frontload

References

“backload”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.