To dispose of property the holding of which is risky; to transfer generally.
1881. The policy of Gibson & Co. is to unload the odium of their wretched force [farce] upon the President. His policy is to compel them to carry off that odium themselves.—Washington Evening Critic, Nov. 24.
1890. I would be too smart to run another ranche in this country. I would unload it on some tender-foot.—Van Dyke, ‘Millionaires of a Day,’ p. 19.
