containerload
nounEtymology From container + load.
1
An amount of goods shipped in a container, especially a shipping container.
- “But we never wanted to be competing with our retailers, and we didn’t want to get involved with selling to one consumer at a time because we’re used to selling containerloads of product and we don’t have a huge staff for that.”2007 August 13, Bob Tedeschi, “Manufacturers Find Ways to Navigate Web Retailing”, in New York Times:
- Related terms
- containerization, container ship