Definitions for payload

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payload pay·load

Spelling: [pey-lohd]

IPA: /ˈpeɪˌloʊd/

Payload is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in payload (aadlopy).

Definitions for payload

noun

1. the part of a cargo producing revenue or income, usually expressed in weight.
2. the number of paying passengers, as on an airplane.
3. Aerospace, Military. the bomb load, warhead, cargo, or passengers of an aircraft, a rocket, missile, etc., for delivery at a target or destination. the total complement of equipment carried by a spacecraft for the performance of a particular mission in space. the explosive energy of the warhead of a missile or of the bomb load of an aircraft:

Origin of payload

First recorded in 1925-30; pay¹ + load

Examples for payload

Once the initial shock had passed, the body became an object only, a thing, a payload he had to deliver.

Once Merlin and company knew the payload had fallen into the cove, they would be diving for it themselves, under cover of guns.

All the wrecks nest there while waiting hopefully for a payload or a grubstake.

"We could have postponed recovering the payload and helped you," Scotty said reproachfully.

And I have only about twice the fuel supply you carry for a 100-ton payload.

There is, of course, cheapness to be considered -- the dollar per kilogram bill for putting a payload into low earth orbit.

But his hand moved over his pad and he made an impatient go-on gesture with his head, swallowing some of his payload.

According to the Israeli press, the Eitan can fly for 20 straight hours and carry a payload of one ton.

The X-37B has a payload bay about the size of a pickup truck bed.

But those landing rockets and Lieutenant Commander Brown constituted all its payload.