"break bulk" meaning in English

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      "form": "breaks bulk",
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    },
    {
      "form": "breaking bulk",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "broke bulk",
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        "past"
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    {
      "form": "broken bulk",
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        "past"
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        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> bulk"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, “Erie Adopts Direct Freight Delivery at New York: Plan Involves Breaking Bulk at Jersey City, N. J., and Use of Auto Trucks, Tractors and Trailers and Ferries”, in Railway age, volume 72:",
          "text": "a plan is under advisement for the extension of the present newly installed method by the utilization of breaking bulk at a transfer, transferring the freight to containers which will be moved by special container floats to a centrally located pier and then by trucks to destination or to inland stations.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove one or more items from the packaging, container, vehicle, or vessel in which shipped with other items."
      ],
      "id": "en-break_bulk-en-verb-WxS9okoL",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "break-bulk"
        },
        {
          "word": "breakbulk"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to remove items in shipment from their packaging, container, or vessel",
          "word": "purkaa lastia"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "break bulk"
}

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      "form": "breaks bulk",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "breaking bulk",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broke bulk",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken bulk",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> bulk"
      },
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "break-bulk"
    },
    {
      "word": "breakbulk"
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        {
          "ref": "1922, “Erie Adopts Direct Freight Delivery at New York: Plan Involves Breaking Bulk at Jersey City, N. J., and Use of Auto Trucks, Tractors and Trailers and Ferries”, in Railway age, volume 72:",
          "text": "a plan is under advisement for the extension of the present newly installed method by the utilization of breaking bulk at a transfer, transferring the freight to containers which will be moved by special container floats to a centrally located pier and then by trucks to destination or to inland stations.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove one or more items from the packaging, container, vehicle, or vessel in which shipped with other items."
      ]
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      "sense": "to remove items in shipment from their packaging, container, or vessel",
      "word": "purkaa lastia"
    }
  ],
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