double-handling

noun

double-handling

noun

1

The handling of anything more than once, e.g. goods in transit.

It is essential under present-day labour costs to eliminate the double-handling which enters into every railway journey for miscellaneous merchandise.1964 May, “News and Comment: Liner trains and the NUR”, in Modern Railways, page 290:

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