unload (a cargo):a delivery could be offloaded immediately on arrival rid oneself of (something) by selling or passing it on to someone else:a dealer offloaded 5,000 of these shares on a client relieve oneself of (a problem or worry) by talking to someone else:it would be nice to have been able to offload your worries on to someone Computing move (data or a task) from one processor to another in order to free the first processor for other tasks:a system designed to offload the text on to a host computer