The word 'offload' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to unloading goods or tasks. Example: The removal company was hired to offload the furniture from the truck.
The most expensive signing in Premier League history made a terrific start to his career at Manchester United but faded so badly that he can no longer even get a starting place ahead of the reborn Ashley Young and there is talk that the club want to offload him this summer.
Almost £500m was wiped off the stockmarket value of Sports Direct on Tuesday as the City responded to founder Mike Ashley's decision to offload a £200m tranche of shares.
One offload later you are behind them.
Pessimists can point to the experience of big banks such as Citigroup, that are still trying to offload huge portfolios of dud assets almost a decade after the crisis.
There are good arguments for the federal government to offload some of its vast land holdings in western states (which we discuss this week); and reasonable people have been making the case for some time.
The third option, of allowing its stake to be diluted below 50%, looks unlikely, and the fourth, of developing a shadow banking system into which the banks can offload assets, seems less attractive after the debacle in America's securitisation markets.It is not just the capital bases of China's banks that will have to adapt to continued expansion.
Secondly, did the state also know about these troubles when CDC helped Lagardère, another industrial group, to offload part of its 7.5% stake in EADS in April 2006 Last week it emerged that France's financial-market regulator had handed documents about its ongoing investigation into the affair to French prosecutors.
Big container ships will dock here and offload their cargoes onto smaller barges which will then travel 225km up the Kaladan before transferring onto trucks and into India.
And can they offload their government-bond holdings without causing a very sharp rise in yields?Given these risks, it is not difficult to construct a bearish scenario for bonds.
If the recent uptick in sales proves short-lived, retailers who extrapolate from the latest numbers will spend a miserable holiday season trying to offload unwanted stock at crippling discounts.
Unless they want to end up with a permanently bigger balance-sheet, central banks must offload those bonds they have already bought.It is no answer to say that the programme will wind itself up naturally as the bonds mature.
