▪ rid oneself of (something) by selling or passing it on to someone else: "a dealer offloaded 5,000 of these shares on a client"Similardispose ofdumpjettisonget rid oftransfershiftpalm offfoistfob off
▪ relieve oneself of (a problem or worry) by talking to someone else: "it would be nice to have been able to offload your worries on to someone"
▪ move (data or a task) from one processor to another in order to free the first processor for other tasks:"a system designed to offload the text on to a host computer"
