Definition of "off-loaded" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of off-load. (verb)

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• "A second port of entry is in Benghazi, Libya, where the remaining 40 percent is off-loaded and then put on trucks for the long, arduous trip through the desert to Chad."
• "Ships docked at the southern Burmese port of Rangoon and off-loaded weapons and matériel onto trains that chugged northeast to the town of Lashio, where the precious cargo was transferred to trucks."
• "Lines were blurred, rules were broken and facilitators were rewarded for creating exotic and risky bundles of securitized loans -- which were then off-loaded to uninitiated and unsuspecting investors."