workload
noun
work·load
ˈwərk-ˌlōd 
1
: the amount of work or of working time expected or assigned
students with a heavy workload
2
: the amount of work performed or capable of being performed (as by a mechanical device) usually within a specific period
Examples of workload in a Sentence
Students complained about the heavy workload.
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Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Everything is done to unlock the potential of the A19 Pro, which is specially built for AI workloads.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Alongside larger cloud providers such as Microsoft, Oracle has been one of the big winners of the artificial intelligence boom, due to its cloud infrastructure business and its access to Nvidia's graphics processing units, or GPUs, needed for large workloads.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Of course, at the age of 8, one of the biggest injustices that Shariat, now 32, had was having to juggle her homework with her Kumon workload after school.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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workload
noun
work·load
ˈwərk-ˌlōd
1
: the amount of work or of working time expected or assigned
students with a heavy workload
2
: the amount of work performed or capable of being performed usually within a specific period
a machine's workload
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