Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
load-shedding is a noun meaning "cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply". It carries one recorded sense.
cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for load-shedding come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.