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Meaning of overloaded | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. loaded too heavily
  2. of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context
  3. past participle of sobrecargar
  4. of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context

Equivalents

Deutsch überbelastet
Español sobrecargado
Italiano abusato carico gravato oberato onusto

Examples

“Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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