planeload
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈpleɪnloʊd/
:
carga de avión
- The charity organization received a planeload of supplies for the disaster relief effort.
- planeload of passengers
- planeload of people
- planeload of aid
Examples
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Imagine what would happen if one were traveling with a planeload of chimpanzees.
Academic text (2009) -
Planeloads of the men of the 101st Airborne Division stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, started landing at Little Rock Air Force Base at 3:30 p.m. this afternoon, at half-hour intervals.
Fiction book (2001) -
Listen, I delivered a planeload of these goods into this place.
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I'm thinking of that planeload of people.
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I have a planeload of Amerasian children.
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Skilled Zimbabweans have emigrated by the planeload.
Fiction book (2002) -
This evacuation, which had to occur in a couple of planeloads, included all of our American Benghazi personnel, including the three wounded and the remains of our fallen colleagues.
Blog text (33) -
It consists of "Kidd's Kids," which takes a planeload of these children (age 5-11) and their families to Walt Disney World in Florida for 5 days every November.
Blog text (16) -
This was ordinarily a busy time for the airport as the early morning flights from P266 all over the country began arriving with planeloads of families bent on touring their nation's capital, government workers on assignment, and lobbyists determined to shape laws for their clients.
Fiction book (1996) -
At the urging of Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, the president invited a planeload of businessmen to join him, including the chairmen of the Big Three auto companies, who have increasingly drifted toward trade protectionism in recent years.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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1.1
An amount of things carried at one time, like cargo on a vehicle
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6.3
The goods carried by a vehicle like an airplane or truck
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Etymology
The word planeload is a simple combination of plane and load, where load means 'a lot carried' just like in truckload. So a planeload is the amount of people or things that fills one airplane.