Plural of carloading; multiple instances of loading cargo into vehicles, or statistical counts of loaded cars in an economy.
From 'carloading' plus '-s' (English plural marker). Used especially in economic data to track industrial activity.
Economists actually use 'carloadings' as an economic indicator—the number of loaded railroad cars leaving factories each week was historically tracked as a sign of how healthy the economy was!
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