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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

But the presence of a planeload of business leaders accompanying Mr. Macron underscored how the visit was always as much about signing commercial deals as coaxing Mr. Xi to help end the war.

From Washington Post Apr. 16, 2023

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

From New York Times Feb. 1, 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 Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

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