1An amount of something that can be carried in one lorry.
they took away two lorryloads of rubbish
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Five lorry-loads of medical supplies, aid and goods costing £10,000 were delivered to the city.
Asda buys sweets by the lorryload for every one of its supermarkets: they come cheap that way.
A 16-wagon goods train is being used to deliver over 100,000 tonnes of bulk fill material for the new bypass - the equivalent of 40 lorryloads a day - direct to the site.
Over the next few weeks the last lorry-loads of coal will be driven from the open-cast surface mine at Catcliffe, South Yorkshire.
On Saturday supporters gathered at the appeal depot in Melksham to wave off another lorryload of shoeboxes bound for eastern Europe.
"The next day, we had to call in a JCB, and they took away two lorryloads of rubbish."
The World Food Programme said on Tuesday that its stocks in Bunia were down to 12 lorry-loads of flour, beans and cooking oil.
Despite an investigation lasting more than three months police seem still to be baffled by the removal of 500 lorry-loads of sand from the beach.
It could provide a land bridge over which humanitarian aid could be brought in from neighbouring Uzbekistan by the lorryload.
Witnesses claim lorryloads of rubbish have been dumped several times a day at the site just off the A64 York Road.
Around five million lorry-loads of goods are now transported along Britain's roads every year.
There are 40 incidents a day involving whole lorry-loads of waste being illegally dumped, in England and Wales.
The Ross Club is saving up for a lorryload of gravel to dump on Deep Dean.
Twenty lorry-loads of fly-tipped rubbish were taken away.
It will be many more months before the FBI has sorted through every lorryload for evidence.
External contractors had to be hired to help one of the council's 10 Neighbourhood Pride clean-up teams move 14 lorryloads of material.
She recently got a pleasant surprise when a Galway businessman who had heard of her exploits contacted her, and delivered to her a lorryload of furniture, the sale of which could cover up to half her budget.
Work started in April 1999 to remove over 380,000 tonnes of polluted soil - 14,500 lorry-loads were moved a total of 435,000 miles.
At present 40 lorry-loads of refuse leave downtown Bombay each day.
National Park officials say it will take 270 lorryloads of stones rumbling through the villages and over an ancient stone bridge to prepare the site.
Synonyms
cargo, freight, freightage, charge, burden
1.1a lorryload/lorryloads ofinformal A large quantity or number of something.
lorryloads of books have been written on the subject of leadership
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They're back with a lorry-load of cash, judging by the posters all over Swindon town centre as well as prime sites in rural Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.
Many people like me spent the Christmas holidays returning lorry-loads of goods we had never ordered.
Here I sit, with a lorryload of rage and nowhere to dump it.
I had meetings with lorry-loads of men in very expensive shirts telling me how excited they were to see me.
Special protections from the lorry-load of new financial regulations heaped by Europe on the City might be up for negotiation.
His stunts include jumping off a building on to an open-top bus, while a lorry-load of fireworks explodes nearby.
There's always a danger that when you let somebody out on weekend leave and they've got lorry-loads of cash that the first thing they'll do is buy a plane ticket to Rio.
There's no shortage of advice for would-be business leaders; lorryloads of books have been written on the subject of leadership in all its forms.
Arsene Wenger rejoiced yesterday that he had a full squad instead of the lorry-load of injuries that he normally has to cope with.
When a screwcap problem is found, it's by the lorry-load rather than in the odd bottle.