LOAD-SHEDDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does load-shedding mean? 

• LOAD-SHEDDING (noun)
  The noun LOAD-SHEDDING has 1 sense:

1. cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply

  Familiarity information: LOAD-SHEDDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOAD-SHEDDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("load-shedding" is a kind of...):

limitation; restriction (an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation))