backloading

noun

  1. 1

    The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.

verb

  1. 1

    To load toward the back, or towards the end of a period.

  2. 2

    To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.

  3. 3

    To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.

  4. 4

    To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel.

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