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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
not comparable
Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. quotations examples
A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable.
2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times
Another prince, deposed by the Revolution, was living abroad.
1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume 3
(dated) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space. quotations examples
Again: The lonely fox roams far abroad, / On ſecret rapine bend and midnight fraud; […]
1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions
(dated) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode. quotations examples
I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad.
p. 1650, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, Diary, Frederic Warne and Company, published 1818, entry for 1650 July 7, page 207
She spoke to Strickland in a language of her own, and whenever in her walks abroad she saw things calculated to destroy the peace of Her Majesty the Queen Empress, she returned to her master and gave him information.
1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Return of Imray
Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter 1, in The House Behind the Cedars
There were very few people abroad and the two men standing quietly under a tree on the opposite side of the boulevard looked out of place.
1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 6, in Casino Royale, page 34
(dated) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; moving without restriction. quotations examples
This Peece, or Schisme of Suicisme, and Selfishnesse, hath spawned most of the Heresies and Schismes, that are abroad in the World.
1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
But he went out, and beganne to publish it much, and to blase abroad the matter: insomuch that Iesus could no more openly enter into the citie, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from euery quarter.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Mark 1:45
Not on target; astray; in error; confused; dazed. examples
(sports) Played elsewhere than one's home grounds. examples
(rare, Scotland) Countries or lands abroad. quotations
I hate abroad, abroad’s bloody.
1929, King George V, widely (and variously) quoted
I am not, however, a xenophobe: obviously, abroad has some good ideas—arranged marriages, violent revolutions and so on.
c. 1991, New Statesman & Society, volumes 3–4, page 180
That is not a xenophobic remark. I am a xenophiliac; I love abroad. I love foreigners. I just do not like the way that they are running the European agricultural policy.
2001 March 13, The Earl of Onslow, speaking in the House of Lords, quoted in Hansard
Throughout, over. examples