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palletize

American  
[pal-i-tahyz] / ˈpæl ɪˌtaɪz /
especially British, palletise

verb (used with object)

palletized, palletizing
  1. to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.

  2. to perform (a materials-handling operation) with the aid of pallets.

  3. to equip with pallets or with the ability to handle pallets.

    to palletize a truck.


verb (used without object)

palletized, palletizing
  1. to handle cargo or other materials by means of pallets.

palletize British  
/ ˈpælɪˌtaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to stack or transport on a pallet or pallets

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of palletize

First recorded in 1950–55; pallet 2 + -ize

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Days later, on Dec. 19 at a cold storage facility west of the airport, workers from Armellini Logistics sorted, consolidated, palletized, staged and loaded the flowers into two 53-foot refrigerated trailers.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2024

"All the material is packaged and palletized and is due to be removed from the site for processing and recycling into plastic bags over the coming weeks."

From BBC Jun. 20, 2023

“Once they get into the transshipment sites, they are palletized and put on trucks, those trucks are picked up by Ukrainian armed forces and taken into Ukraine.”

From Washington Post Apr. 12, 2022

GM’s prototype palletized Mobile Power Generator converts offboard, bulk-stored hydrogen to electricity to quietly and efficiently power military camps and installations with no emissions in operation.

From The Verge Jan. 19, 2022

While the configuration is usually for passenger transport, palletized construction allows rapid reconfiguration when necessary.

From Concordance A Terran Empire concordance by Wilson, Ann

A single fulfillment center can contain 1,500-2,000 full-time workers, stowing, picking, packing, unloading, sorting, palletizing and delivering hundreds of thousands of items every day.

From The Guardian Nov. 21, 2018

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