Definition of "workload" []

• The amount of work assigned to or expected from a worker in a specified time period. (noun)
• The amount of work that a machine produces or can produce in a specified time period. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "$workload = $job - > workload (); echo "Received job:". $job - > handle (). "\n"; echo "Workload: $workload\n";"
• "If you take a purist definition of the term workload, you will find that workload is the total requests made by users and applications of a system."
• "Senator Klobuchar said she and her colleague had discussed some of the shifts in workload during the recount, as have their chiefs-of-staff to coordinate work on some cases."