"break bulk" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breaks bulk",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breaking bulk",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broke bulk",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken bulk",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> bulk"
      },
      "expansion": "break bulk (third-person singular simple present breaks bulk, present participle breaking bulk, simple past broke bulk, past participle broken bulk)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English light verb constructions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English predicates",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        }
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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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breaks bulk",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breaking bulk",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broke bulk",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken bulk",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> bulk"
      },
      "expansion": "break bulk (third-person singular simple present breaks bulk, present participle breaking bulk, simple past broke bulk, past participle broken bulk)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "break-bulk"
    },
    {
      "word": "breakbulk"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English light verb constructions",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Requests for review of Mandarin translations",
        "Requests for review of Russian translations"
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove one or more items from the packaging, container, vehicle, or vessel in which shipped with other items."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to remove items in shipment from their packaging, container, or vessel",
      "word": "purkaa lastia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "break bulk"
}