load-shedding

1. 1.

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

   Broaderlimitation

Questions about load-shedding

What does load-shedding mean?

load-shedding means "cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply".

How many syllables are in load-shedding?

load-shedding has 4 syllables and divides as lo-ad--shed-ding under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is load-shedding a common word?

load-shedding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.