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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 abstains, present participle abstaining, simple past and past participle abstained
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) Keep or withhold oneself.
(intransitive) Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence. quotations examples
The Security Council […] calls upon all Governments and authorities, without prejudice to the rights, claims or positions of the parties concerned, to abstain from any hostile military action in Palestine and to that end to issue a cease-fire order to their military and paramilitary forces
22 May 1948, United Nations, Security Council Resolution 49
Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
1597, Shakespeare, Richard II, II-i
(intransitive, obsolete) Fast (not eat for a period).
(intransitive) Deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present. quotations examples
[…] forcing a small portion of the population to abstain from voting
1913, Thomas Babington Macaulay, A Short History of English Liberalism
(transitive, obsolete) Hinder; keep back; withhold. quotations
Whether he abstain men from marying [sic].
1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions on the four chief places in Scripture