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planeload

American  
[playn-lohd] / ˈpleɪnˌloʊd /

noun

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


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These will remain in place "until the first planeload of Columbian deportees is successfully returned", the White House said.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023

Meanwhile, Thailand sent three ministers to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport to welcome the first planeload of Chinese tourists in years, in a bid to revive inbound tourism.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Meanwhile, Thailand sent three ministers to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport to welcome the country’s first planeload of Chinese tourists in years, in a bid to revive inbound tourism.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

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 Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

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