Definition of "planeload" []

• The load that an airplane is capable of carrying. (noun)

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• "Which makes the news, a single automobile death or a planeload of people dead?"
• "Precisely at noon, just as Reagan began to recite the oath of office, the planeload of Americans was permitted to take off."
• "And so the prime minister will follow the example of Merkel when he lands in South Africa on Monday morning with a planeload of 25 British business leaders."