off-load
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Gloucester scrum-half Tomos Williams perhaps hasn't reached the heights he managed last season but his off-load to set up Arthur Clark for a try in the Cherry and Whites' 30-21 defeat by Saracens was pure off-the-cuff brilliance.
From BBC
The company’s prospects were so bad that the banks that loaned Musk billions couldn’t even off-load the debt.
From Slate
The excellent Paul Vaughan had begun that move with a sharp off-load, and he grabbed the second try for himself, powering over from dummy half despite the presence of three tacklers.
From BBC
If his companies were to actually off-load hundreds of millions of coins in a classic pulling of the rug on his biggest fans, those coins would have sold for much, much less than $56 billion.
From Slate
French frustration grew with an Annaelle Deshayes knock-on from a metre out but they finally punched in a second try from Marine Menager after a lovely off-load back inside by Bourdon Sansus.
From BBC
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