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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 accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued
(intransitive) To increase, to rise quotations examples
And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
(intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent. quotations examples
Interest accrues to principal.
1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE
The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press
1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface
(intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time. examples
(transitive) To accumulate. quotations examples
We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part, / In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart, / Which to that other Mortal shall accrew, / Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.
1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew
(intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right. examples
plural accrues
(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing