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overloadverb /əʊvəˈləʊd / [with object]1Load with too great a burden or cargo: both boats were overloaded and low in the water (as adjective overloaded) overloaded vehicles...- Ensure strict checks on the city outskirts to ensure that vehicles are not overloaded.
- That vehicle would be overloaded, and would only have one driver for however many people he is carrying.
- At all costs, the vehicle must never be overloaded.
Synonyms overburden, put too much in, overcharge, encumber, burden, weigh down rare surcharge 1.1Give excessive work, responsibility, or information to: the staff are heavily overloaded with casework...- You have a habit of not letting people know you're overloaded until you reach crisis level.
- It overloads good employees with work because the supposed weaker ones cannot be trusted to perform.
- Similarly, if a colleague asks you to help out with a project and you're already overloaded, politely defer, offering your assistance at a later date.
Synonyms strain, impose excessive strain on, overtax, stretch, overwork, overuse; deluge, swamp, oversupply, overwhelm, clog, snow under, beset 1.2Put too great a demand on (an electrical system): the wiring had been overloaded...- Between the air conditioners, the fans, the humidifiers and all the usual appliances, it's not hard to overload your electrical system during the dog days of August.
- If you overload an electrical system with too much energy and too much stimulation, the circuit breaker activates and shuts everything down.
- At this time of year especially it is very easy to overload your electrical system.
noun /ˈəʊvələʊd / [in singular]An excessive amount of something: an overload of stress...- Information overload (data glut) means it takes longer to produce less.
- Information overload leads to stress and, often, the creation of information filtering roles.
- Stress caused by an overload of patients has forced an experienced Yorkshire dentist to decide to leave the country and practise abroad.
Synonyms excess, overabundance, superabundance, profusion, glut, surfeit, surplus, superfluity, more than enough, too many, too much; avalanche, deluge, flood, abundance, plethora, overkill, backlog |