backload

back +‎ load

backload (plural backloads)

1. A load carried on the return journey of a delivery vehicle.

• back load

• backloading (noun)

backload (third-person singular simple present backloads, present participle backloading, simple past and past participle backloaded)

1. To load toward the back, or towards the end of a period.
   • 2007 October 17, Geraldine Fabrikant, “New Contract for Moonves Links Pay to CBS’s Results”, in New York Times‎:

     For a grant this size, you would expect either that the vesting occurs over a considerably longer period or is backloaded.

2. (transport) To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.
3. (transitive, military) To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.
   • 1993, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, International Military and Defense Encyclopedia: M-O, page 1601:

     Not only will repair and recovery be vital, but also the backloading of equipment casualties to farther rearward, better protected, and more specialized maintenance facilities.

4. To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel.

• frontload

• “backload”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.