How to pronounce “load-bearing”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (chiefly construction and civil engineering) Able to support a load.
• (figurative) Of a physical, digital, procedural etc. component, necessary to the integrity of the system of which it forms a part.
• [Noun]
• The carrying of loads.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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