Definition of "containerload" []

• An amount of goods shipped in a container. (noun)

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• "Aunt Sophie's family handles anger a little differently, preferring to manufacture it as the Chinese do high explosives, by the containerload."
• "As Burrow points out, there's a world of difference between seeing a zero on a certain stock number and knowing a containerload of that item is one day out of port."
• "The accompanying olive oil, which has a slight, not unwelcome grassiness, arrives by the 40-foot containerload from his family's 10,000-tree farm in Krokees, south of Sparta."