truckload
truckload
Definition
truck·load (truk′lōd′)
noun
- a load that fills a truck
- the minimum weight of a specific commodity qualifying as a truckload of that commodity in rates that apply to the shipment of goods by truck
truckload
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- food: Food Not Bombs has started organizing busses, vans and truckloads of food, kitchen equipment and clothing to the people fleeing the disaster.
- supply: An exploratory mission, which included two truckloads of relief supplies, arrived in Pristina.
- rock: Anyone know of a source of truckloads of crushed volcanic rock?
- nonsense: If so, you have swallowed a truckload of nonsense.
- sand: Emergency measures were taken as truckloads of sand and cement were used to stabilize the structure, saving the pier from imminent closure.
- fun: They can fill the loader with toys or yard leaves dump trucks toy and transport them -- all while having a truckload of fun.
Converse of object
- get: And, yes, he's got a truckload of enthusiasm.
- have: Once the ground was prepared, we had a huge truckload of grass brought in to lay down over 40 square meters of grass.
- sell: Teaching Maths in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for £ 100.
- send: Yet local authorities are not sending truckloads of material to the plant.
- need: First of all, you need a truckload of cash to start a business.
- see: And it was particularly moving to see the truckloads of veterans parading through Red Square past old allies - and former enemies.
Adjective modifier
- whole: Performs Love Creeping Up On You with verve and gusto and a whole truckload of soul.
- first: The first truckload of 390,000 out of 5 million condoms, which Taiwan donated, reaches Liberia through the World Health Organization.
- few: Bringing in a few truckloads of sand and some plastic chairs and tables is not enough.
truckload Quotes
A typewriter needs only paper; a camera uses film, requires subsidiary equipment by the truckload and Wellington several hundreds of technicians. That is always the central fact aboutthefilmmakeras opposed toanyother artist: he can never afford his own tools.
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