offloadEnglishOxford English Thesaurusoffload verb 1 the ship offloaded 500 tonnes of coal ash into the North Sea: unload, dump, jettison, discharge, unship, deposit, empty (out), tip (out), drop, get rid of; archaic unlade; rare disburden. 2 it's expected that the government will offload most of its BT shares: dispose of, dump, jettison, get rid of, transfer, shift; palm off, foist, fob off.offload Oxford Dictionary of English