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planeload

American  
[pleyn-lohd] / ˈpleɪnˌloʊd /

noun

  1. the amount of people or cargo an airplane can carry.


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The planeload of migrants deported from the US to El Salvador is scheduled to arrive in Maiquetía, Venezuela later on Friday.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

A planeload of World Health Organization supplies has landed at Egypt’s el-Arish airport and is destined for Gaza when humanitarian access across the border is possible, the U.N. said Saturday.

From Washington Times • Oct. 15, 2023

In early December 2020, the first planeload of Sinovac, the Chinese-made vaccine, landed in Indonesia.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

Meanwhile, the first planeload of aid from Saudi Arabia arrived in Pakistan overnight.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2022

We'll have a planeload of geophysicists down here in a few days to get all the scientific data possible out of this event.

From The Flaming Mountain by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)