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plural loaders
Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads. quotations examples
A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85
The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice
(computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution. examples
A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, wheel loader, etc. examples
(marketing) An incentive given to a dealer. quotations examples
Unique point-of-purchase materials and display loaders dramatically contribute to the display's attention-getting ability.
1990, Robert B. Konikow, Sales Promotion Design, page 197
Marketers use dealer loaders to obtain new distributors and push larger quantities of goods.
1995, William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell, Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, page 591
Dealer (or buying) loaders are gifts offered to resellers for stocking products. Many companies specialize in providing premium and gift items, and publish catalogues from which you can select appropriate items.
2001, Stuart Clark Rogers, Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Techniques, page 172
comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned
Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. quotations examples
Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.
1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. quotations examples
[…] your abandoned streams […]
1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Free from constraint; uninhibited. quotations examples
Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence
(geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
simple past and past participle of abandon examples