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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
third-person singular simple present abbreviates, present participle abbreviating, simple past and past participle abbreviated
(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. quotations
It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off.
1597, Francis Bacon, Essays
(obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner.
(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. quotations examples
But as delivery schedules have dwindled into hours, even the gigantic warehouse full of stuff in a central place such as the triangle is proving insufficient. Now, companies also need smaller distribution centres around the country, to respond rapidly to orders and to abbreviate the last mile as much as possible.
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form. examples
(transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. examples
comparative more abbreviate, superlative most abbreviate
(obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. quotations
The abbreviate form has never been able to recover that shock.
1892, J. J. Earle, The philology of the English tongue
(biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
plural abbreviates
(obsolete, Scotland) An abridgment.