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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
workload
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lighten the load/burden/workload
▪ We should hire another secretary to lighten Barbara’s workload.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
▪ The heavy workload that is life, that is death, that is life again, everlasting, world without end.
▪ With a heavy workload and few specialized staff, for some councils conservation has taken second place.
▪ This is not a particularly heavy physical workload.
▪ It is sheer indulgence, particularly for people who often protest about heavy workloads.
increased
▪ They are boycotting new assessment procedures, claiming social welfare officers were not being recognised for increased workloads.
▪ Consequently, resources need to be channelled into providing extra theatres and consultants to cope with the increased workload.
▪ New drugs and new work practices have combined to produce the increased workload.
■ VERB
add
▪ A new baby would only add to her workload.
▪ Benson also doubted whether the attorney general could effectively enforce the additional cases that automatic monitoring would add to its workload.
increase
▪ Its usefulness overstated, its flexibility limited, it may even increase teacher workload, despite claims to the contrary.
▪ Notice that it was not the justices but the clerks who absorbed the increased workload.
▪ Many general practitioners fear that the community care reforms will increase their own workload, too.
reduce
▪ This reduces the workload and helps in the production of a more comprehensive and accurate picture.
▪ Clearly the objective of reducing the workload on probate courts by eliminating one class of contests is not without some legitimacy.
▪ It has enough equipment to help reduce the workload.
▪ To eliminate it, there were two options: increase the number of judges, or reduce their workload.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We hired another secretary to handle the increased workload.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Frye talked about grades, and credits, and workloads.
▪ Judgements about staffing requirements, levels of workload, achievable standards, and so on, require managerial as well as clinical skills.
▪ Once in the classroom the teacher is restricted by the core curriculum and general workload and lack of equipment.
▪ Some fathers sincerely tried to become parents, sharing the home workload and parental responsibilities.
▪ The aim is not to increase the community nurses' workload but rather to decrease time spent chasing the social work team.
▪ The manager predicts variations in workload for the off-duty period.
▪ This reduces the workload and helps in the production of a more comprehensive and accurate picture.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
workload

1939, from work (n.) + load (n.).

Wiktionary
workload

n. 1 The amount of work assigned to a particular worker, normally in a specified time period 2 The amount of work that a machine can handle or produce

WordNet
workload

n. work that a person is expected to do in a specified time

Wikipedia
Workload

The term workload can refer to a number of different yet related entities. However, it is clear that cognitive workload results from mental processes when performing tasks, depending on the users's capabilities and the task demands.

Usage examples of "workload".

Stanley seems to thrive on his heavy workload and Christopher grows browner each day.

So I took the Metcalfe file back to the file room without opening it, and then I sat at my desk and prioritized my workload and started on the list of actions.

Tyler to carry the workload while he enjoyed a semiretirement of sorts.

There were more cases than they could possibly handle – from hacking to cyberstalking to child pornography to copyright infringement of software – and the workload seemed to get heavier with every passing month.

There were more cases than they could possibly handle - from hacking to cyberstalking to child pornography to copyright infringement of software - and the workload seemed to get heavier with every passing month.

The primitive circulatory systems of the early Minervan fish couldn't cope with the dual workload of carrying enough oxygen to the cells, and of carrying wastes and toxins away from the cells-not if progress toward anything more advanced was going to be made, anyway.

Augustine grass of her well-trimmed lawn, which was kept by one of the men from Satin, who still charged only twenty dollars, though he'd cut back on his workload and charged everyone else double that.

Or we could eliminate selective positions and double up the workload for senior employees -- without overtime or additional compensation, of course.

My line manager, Mr Wiggins, once confided that they create work rather reduce the workload.

The sort of hazing by upperclassmen which was the norm in some military academies was strictly prohibited in the Star Kingdom, but the level of discipline demanded, the workloads assigned, and the energy with which instructors and senior midshipmen .

The sort of hazing by upperclassmen which was the norm in some military academies was strictly prohibited in the Star Kingdom, but the level of discipline demanded, the workloads assigned, and the energy with which instructors and senior midshipmen .

The point is to lighten our workload by recruiting new blood - not to end up adding keeping this guy in office to what we already do.

All in all, it had been a good time, despite the unrelenting workload and the sense that, apsimons or no, their supply of diet supplements was steadily dwindling, but now it was time to find out if the new companies and regiments would be used as planned, or if it had all been for naught.