Definition of "load-shedding" [load-shedding]

• The act or process of disconnecting the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "In the world's mushrooming cities, electrical "load-shedding" (cutting off the electricity on some lines when the demand exceeds the supply) and brownouts (drops in voltage) tend to see poor consumers lose out most (if indeed they have access to electricity at all – 1.4 billion of them don't)."
• "Sita, like my uncle's family, lives in Malibu Towne in Gurgaon, 212 acres of a middle-class heaven where the upper-middle-class inhabitants of the tower apartments enjoy a life of "no load-shedding" -- meaning the towers are run by external generators so the residents can avoid the cyclical power cuts the government inflicts on its booming populace."
• "At the end of 2007, South Africa began to experience an electricity crisis because state power supplier Eskom suffered supply problems with aged plants, necessitating “load-shedding” cuts to residents and businesses in the major cities."