Definitions

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  • noun transport The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.
  • verb Present participle of backload.

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Examples

  • The Treasury ruled that decades-old "backloading" laws that effectively prohibit companies from temporarily freezing pension growth don't apply when the freeze is delayed, even if it is eventually implemented.

    Treasury Validates Some Pension Rollbacks Ellen E. Schultz 2008

  • "backloading" too much training and salary preferring instead to see training and induction restructured and re-sequenced so that people get training in supervised settings in schools.

    Education Sector: Independent Analysis, Innovative Ideas 2008

  • I have no problem weeding out the low-performers but I've been somewhat skeptical of the idea of 'backloading' too much training and salary preferring instead to see training and induction restructured and re-sequenced so that people get training in supervised settings in schools. "

    Booker Rising 2008

  • I have no problem weeding out the low-performers but I've been somewhat skeptical of the idea of 'backloading' too much training and salary preferring instead to see training and induction restructured and re-sequenced so that people get training in supervised settings in schools. "

    Booker Rising 2008

  • I have no problem weeding out the low-performers but I've been somewhat skeptical of the idea of 'backloading' too much training and salary preferring instead to see training and induction restructured and re-sequenced so that people get training in supervised settings in schools. "

    Booker Rising 2008

  • Owing to a glitch in the regulations under section 411 (b) (commonly called the “backloading” rules), this benign practice is legally dubious.

    Retirement Policy 2009

  • Long gone for most American Christians are the Old World norms of decorating the tree on Christmas Eve and backloading much of the holiday into the last half of December.

    Some deck the halls earlier, others check the calendar Steve Hendrix 2010

  • Long gone for most American Christians are the Old World norms of decorating the tree on Christmas Eve and backloading much of the holiday into the last half of December.

    Some deck the halls earlier, others check the calendar Steve Hendrix 2010

  • That backloading of the bill was good economics: with the Federal Reserve doing less to pump up the economy, an extra half-trillion dollars in fiscal stimulus will help pick up the slack.

    The Democratic brand… 2010

  • We find it difficult to justify backloading this obligation in a way that shifts the burden of reducing carbon emissions from ourselves to our children and grandchildren.

    Brendan Smith: Unions Call for Science-Based Reductions in Greenhouse Gases 2010

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